alerta
[aˈleɾt̪a]
The verdict
“alerta” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #3,378. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,378
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Adjetivo invariante en género que denota estado de atención o vigilancia.
Corpus desk
Index ES-alerta · alerta · Spanish
alerta · rank #3,378 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,378
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH Alfonso
Nearest frequency peer: Alfonso (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “alerta”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- venía
venía
96,628 corpus weight
- vuestro
vuestro
96,626 corpus weight
- alerta
alerta
96,623 corpus weight
- Alfonso
Alfonso
96,622 corpus weight
- aprendizaje
aprendizaje
96,620 corpus weight
- básicamente
básicamente
96,619 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “alerta” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alerta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [aˈleɾt̪a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,378 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Dónde se sitúa “alerta” en la frecuencia del español
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around alerta (IPA [aˈleɾt̪a]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,378 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for alerta, with forms such as "aelrta", "alerat", and "alerrta". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "alta", "aleta", "aorta", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is alerta, spelled A-L-E-R-T-A.
Definition
- 1Adjetivo invariante en género que denota estado de atención o vigilancia.
- 2Adjetivo variante en género que denota estado de atención o vigilancia, la versión masculina alerto es poco usual.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aelrta
- alerat
- alerrta
- alertta
- aletra
- allerta
- alreta
- laerta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alerta - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "alerta", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "alerta". Here's where to go from here.
- "alerta" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "alta". View pair
- 8 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #3,378 among Spanish headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more Spanish words in the "A" letter cohort. A–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.