alien
[ˈaljẽn]
The verdict
“alien” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #16,005. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,005
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que viene de fuera del planeta Tierra.
Corpus desk
Index ES-alien · alien · Spanish
alien · rank #16,005 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,005
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH Alejandría
Nearest frequency peer: Alejandría (-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 “alien”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- agresivos
agresivos
84,000 corpus weight
- alameda
alameda
83,998 corpus weight
- Alejandría
Alejandría
83,997 corpus weight
- alien
alien
83,996 corpus weight
- alpha
alpha
83,995 corpus weight
- Amelia
Amelia
83,994 corpus weight
What this shows “alien” 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 | alien |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaljẽn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #16,005 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “alien”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around alien (IPA [ˈaljẽn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,005 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Que viene de fuera del planeta Tierra.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for alien, with forms such as "ailen", "alein", and "alienn". 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, "amén", "alió", "avión", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is alien, spelled A-L-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Que viene de fuera del planeta Tierra.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ailen
- alein
- alienn
- aline
- allien
- laien
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alien - 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 "alien", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).