alquitrán
[alkiˈt̪ɾãn]
The verdict
“alquitrán” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #39,041. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,041
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sustancia untuosa oscura, de olor fuerte, que se obtiene de la destilación de ciertas materias orgánicas, principalmente de la hulla y de algunas maderas resinosas: se emplea en pintura, pavimentac...
Corpus desk
Index ES-alquitran · alquitrán · Spanish
alquitrán · rank #39,041 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,041
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH alimentaba
Nearest frequency peer: alimentaba (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “alquitrán”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- alegrado
alegrado
60,963 corpus weight
- Alessandri
Alessandri
60,962 corpus weight
- alimentaba
alimentaba
60,961 corpus weight
- alquitrán
alquitrán
60,960 corpus weight
- analíticas
analíticas
60,958 corpus weight
- anclas
anclas
60,957 corpus weight
What this shows “alquitrán” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alquitrán |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [alkiˈt̪ɾãn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #39,041 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “alquitrán”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around alquitrán (IPA [alkiˈt̪ɾãn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,041 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sustancia untuosa oscura, de olor fuerte, que se obtiene de la destilación de ciertas materias orgánicas, principalmente de la hulla y de algunas maderas resinosas: se emplea en pintura, pavimentac...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for alquitrán, with forms such as "allquitrán", "alqiutrán", and "alqquitrán". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "alquilan", "adquieran", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is alquitrán, spelled A-L-Q-U-I-T-R-Á-N.
Definition
- 1Sustancia untuosa oscura, de olor fuerte, que se obtiene de la destilación de ciertas materias orgánicas, principalmente de la hulla y de algunas maderas resinosas: se emplea en pintura, pavimentación, como combustible, etc.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- allquitrán
- alqiutrán
- alqquitrán
- alquirtán
- alquitrná
- alquitrrán
- alquitránn
- alquittrán
- alquitárn
- alqutirán
- aluqitrán
- aqluitrán
- laquitrán
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alquitrán - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).