alerce
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#78,825
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
alerce is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Larix decidua) Árbol de la familia de las pináceas originario de Europa. Alcanza unos 45 m de altura y puede vivir alrededor de 600 años. A diferencia de la mayoría de las coníferas, pierde su fol... Pronounced [aˈleɾse].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alerce |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈleɾse] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #78,825 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for alerce is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈleɾse]. Corpus data places it at rank #78,825 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for alerce in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is alerce, spelled A-L-E-R-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Larix decidua) Árbol de la familia de las pináceas originario de Europa. Alcanza unos 45 m de altura y puede vivir alrededor de 600 años. A diferencia de la mayoría de las coníferas, pierde su follaje durante el invierno. A causa de la resistencia que su madera tiene a la putrefacción, se usa en el revestimiento de construcciones. De su resina se fabrica la trementina de Venecia.
- 2Por extensión, cualquier otra especie del género Larix, distribuído por Europa, Asía y Norteamérica. Todos son árboles de gran tamaño y hoja caduca.
- 3Por semejanza, Fitzroya cupressoides, un árbol de la familia de las podocarpáceas nativo de Chile y Argentina. Puede medir hasta más de 50 m de altura y vivir alrededor de 4000 años. Ha sido fuertemente explotado por su madera roja que se usa en la fabricación de tejuelas.
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Frequency rank: #78,825 in Spanish
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