alero
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#34,871
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
alero is aSpanishnoun. It means: Parte inferior del tejado de un edificio, que sale fuera de la pared y sirve para apartar de ella el agua de lluvia. Pronounced [aˈleɾo]. Often confused with aro and algo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alero |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈleɾo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #34,871 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for alero is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈleɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #34,871 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for alero, with forms such as "aelro", "aleor", and "alerro". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "aro", "algo", "alto", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 alero, spelled A-L-E-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Parte inferior del tejado de un edificio, que sale fuera de la pared y sirve para apartar de ella el agua de lluvia.
- 2Cada una de las alas o piezas sujetas a los costados de la caja de algunos carruajes, que sirven para preservar de las salpicaduras de lodo a los que van dentro.
- 3En la caza de perdices con lazo o con buitrón, cada uno de los atajos o paredillas que se forman a uno y otro lado para que estas aves vayan encallejonadas hacia la red.
- 4El jugador que juega por las laterales.
- 5Amigote.
- 6Amigo íntimo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aelro,aleor,alerro,allero,alreo,laero
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for alero
Misspelling Variants of "alero"
Frequency rank: #34,871 in Spanish
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