alimento
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,066
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
alimento is aSpanishnoun. It means: Sustancia normalmente comida o bebida por los seres vivos. Es la principal fuente de energía y nutrición de animales y, generalmente, es de origen animal o vegetal. Pronounced [aliˈmẽn̪t̪o]. It ranks #5,066 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with aumento and asiento.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alimento |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aliˈmẽn̪t̪o] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,066 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for alimento is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aliˈmẽn̪t̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,066 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for alimento, with forms such as "ailmento", "aliemnto", and "alimennto". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "aumento", "asiento", "alimentos", 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 alimento, spelled A-L-I-M-E-N-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sustancia normalmente comida o bebida por los seres vivos. Es la principal fuente de energía y nutrición de animales y, generalmente, es de origen animal o vegetal.
- 2Asistencia económica que por ley debe dar el marido a su esposa separada e hijos.
- 3Lo que nutre una actividad o un ente inmaterial.
- 4Cualquier cosa cuyo consumo permite algún tipo de actividad o funcionamiento.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ailmento,aliemnto,alimennto,alimenot,alimentto,alimetno,alimmento,alimneto,allimento,almiento,laimento
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for alimento
Misspelling Variants of "alimento"
Frequency rank: #5,066 in Spanish
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