aliso
[aˈliso]
The verdict
“aliso” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #92,646 among 120,137 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,646
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 120,137
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Alnus glutinosa) árbol de la familia de las betuláceas extendido por Europa y el suroeste de Asia. Su hábitat natural son los lugares húmedos y bosques ribereños.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aliso |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈliso] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #92,646 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aliso” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
aliso is uncommon Spanish at frequency #92,646 among 120,137 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [aˈliso]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for aliso in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 aliso, spelled A-L-I-S-O.
Definition
- 1(Alnus glutinosa) árbol de la familia de las betuláceas extendido por Europa y el suroeste de Asia. Su hábitat natural son los lugares húmedos y bosques ribereños.
- 2Madera de este árbol(1).
- 3Género de la familia de las rosáceas que abarca entre 100 y 200 especies de árboles y arbustos, comúnmente denominados serbales. Se suelen usar en parques y jardines como planta ornamental y sus frutos se utilizan en la fabricación del vodka ruso.
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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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Using “aliso”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-L-I-S-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.