alim
[aˈlĩm]
The verdict
“alim” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #90,573 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,573
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Árbol originario Filipinas, de la familia Euphorbiaceae, puede alcazar los 3 metros y medio de altura, sus hojas se emplean como medicamento antiinflamatorio.
Corpus desk
Index ES-alim · alim · Spanish
alim · rank #90,573 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,573
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH almanaques
Nearest frequency peer: almanaques (+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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “alim”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- alanos
alanos
9,433 corpus weight
- alienten
alienten
9,430 corpus weight
- alim
alim
9,428 corpus weight
- almanaques
almanaques
9,427 corpus weight
- amicus
amicus
9,425 corpus weight
- amontonar
amontonar
9,424 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “alim” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alim |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈlĩm] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #90,573 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “alim” en español
Rare enough to double-check
alim is uncommon Spanish at frequency #90,573 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [aˈlĩm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Árbol originario Filipinas, de la familia Euphorbiaceae, puede alcazar los 3 metros y medio de altura, sus hojas se emplean como medicamento antiinflamatorio.".
alim has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is alim, spelled A-L-I-M.
Definition
- 1Árbol originario Filipinas, de la familia Euphorbiaceae, puede alcazar los 3 metros y medio de altura, sus hojas se emplean como medicamento antiinflamatorio.
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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