alta
[ˈal̪t̪a]
The verdict
“alta” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #667) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #667
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En los hospitales, orden informada al enfermo a quien se da por sano, para regresar a su vida normal.
Corpus desk
Index ES-alta · alta · Spanish
alta · rank #667 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #667
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH resultado
Nearest frequency peer: resultado (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “alta”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- políticos
políticos
99,337 corpus weight
- pronto
pronto
99,336 corpus weight
- resultado
resultado
99,335 corpus weight
- alta
alta
99,334 corpus weight
- cambiar
cambiar
99,333 corpus weight
- civil
civil
99,332 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “alta” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | alta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈal̪t̪a] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #667 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “alta”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for alta is neighbouring look-alikes ("at", "Ana", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈal̪t̪a]. Frequency #667 among 7,704 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for alta, with forms such as "alat", "allta", and "altta". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "at", "Ana", "art", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is alta, spelled A-L-T-A.
Definition
- 1En los hospitales, orden informada al enfermo a quien se da por sano, para regresar a su vida normal.
- 2Documento que acredita la entrada de un militar en servicio activo.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alat
- allta
- altta
- atla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alta - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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