alquimia
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,472
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
alquimia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Antigua práctica protocientífica y disciplina filosófica que combina elementos de la química, la física, la medicina, la astrología y otros, popularmente citada como búsqueda de transformar plomo (... Pronounced [alˈkimja]. Often confused with alquimista and alquila.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alquimia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [alˈkimja] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,472 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for alquimia is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [alˈkimja]. Corpus data places it at rank #29,472 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for alquimia, with forms such as "allquimia", "alqiumia", and "alqquimia". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "alquimista", "alquila", 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 alquimia, spelled A-L-Q-U-I-M-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Antigua práctica protocientífica y disciplina filosófica que combina elementos de la química, la física, la medicina, la astrología y otros, popularmente citada como búsqueda de transformar plomo (u otros elementos) en oro o lograr la panacea universal. Es la precursora de la química.
- 2Transformación maravillosa e increíble.
- 3Latón.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: allquimia,alqiumia,alqquimia,alquiima,alquimai,alquimmia,alqumiia,aluqimia,aqluimia,laquimia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "alquimia"
Frequency rank: #29,472 in Spanish
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