alimañero
[alimaˈɲeɾo]
The verdict
“alimañero” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Guarda de caza, empleado en la destrucción de alimañas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alimañero |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [alimaˈɲeɾo] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “alimañero” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for alimañero is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [alimaˈɲeɾo]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Guarda de caza, empleado en la destrucción de alimañas.".
alimañero has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is alimañero, spelled A-L-I-M-A-Ñ-E-R-O.
Definition
- 1Guarda de caza, empleado en la destrucción de alimañas.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “alimañero”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-L-I-M-A-Ñ-E-R-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [alimaˈɲeɾo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.