aleta
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,329
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
aleta is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cada uno de los miembros aplanados que usan los vertebrados acuáticos para la locomoción. Pronounced [aˈlet̪a]. Often confused with alt and alto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aleta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈlet̪a] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,329 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for aleta is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈlet̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #17,329 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 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 aleta, with forms such as "aelta", "aleat", and "aletta". 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, "alt", "alto", "alta", 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 aleta, spelled A-L-E-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cada uno de los miembros aplanados que usan los vertebrados acuáticos para la locomoción.
- 2Calzado de goma de forma aplanada que facilita la natación y el buceo.
- 3Parte inferior del costado de la nariz.
- 4En los automóviles, parte de la carrocería que sobresale sobre las ruedas.
- 5En ciertas embarcaciones, prolongación de la popa.
- 6Rumbo de navegación en donde la aleta queda enfrentada contra el viento, y casi lo está la popa.
- 7Espacio entre el brazo y el tórax.
- 8Parte del tejado que sobresale y protege de la lluvia.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aelta,aleat,aletta,alleta,altea,laeta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for aleta
Misspelling Variants of "aleta"
Frequency rank: #17,329 in Spanish
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Other entries that begin with the letter A in our Spanish index: