Alicante
[aliˈkãn̪t̪e]
The verdict
“Alicante” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #6,258. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,258
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ciudad de la Comunidad Valenciana, en España.
Corpus desk
Index ES-alicante · Alicante · Spanish
Alicante · rank #6,258 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,258
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH agarra
Nearest frequency peer: agarra (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “Alicante”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- advertencia
advertencia
93,746 corpus weight
- afortunadam…
afortunadamente
93,745 corpus weight
- agarra
agarra
93,744 corpus weight
- Alicante
Alicante
93,743 corpus weight
- Alicia
Alicia
93,742 corpus weight
- aparatos
aparatos
93,741 corpus weight
What this shows “Alicante” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | Alicante |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [aliˈkãn̪t̪e] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,258 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Alicante”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Alicante (IPA [aliˈkãn̪t̪e]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #6,258 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Alicante, with forms such as "ailcante", "alciante", and "aliacnte". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "almirante", "aliciente", "alcance", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is Alicante, spelled A-L-I-C-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Ciudad de la Comunidad Valenciana, en España.
- 2Provincia española con capital en la ciudad homónima.
- 3Apellido de origen andaluz
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ailcante
- alciante
- aliacnte
- alicanet
- alicannte
- alicantte
- alicatne
- aliccante
- alicnate
- allicante
- laicante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Alicante - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Alicante", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).