altar

Name: altar, Spanish Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

[al̪ˈt̪aɾ]

/[al̪ˈt̪aɾ]/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“altar” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #6,615. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,615
frequency rank, Spanish: 7,704
“A” headwords: 7
tracked misspellings: 20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Montículo, piedra o construcción elevada donde se celebran ritos religiosos como sacrificios, ofrendas, etc.

Corpus desk

Index ES-altar · altar · Spanish

altar · rank #6,615 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

FREQ-COMMON #6,615
LEN-MID 5 letters
VOW-2 2 vowels
CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
VAR-MID 7 variants
BOOK-DENSE 7,704
PHOTO-FINISH aporta

Nearest frequency peer: aporta (+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.

afirmar

93,389
agrupación

93,388
altar

93,386
aporta

93,385
ataca

93,384
atracción

93,383

What this shows “altar” 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).

altar vs ATR

0% similar

altar vs alto

60% similar

altar vs amar

60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for altar
Property	Value
Headword	altar
Language	Spanish
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	[al̪ˈt̪aɾ]
Letters	5
Frequency rank	#6,615
Misspellings tracked	7
Confusable pairs	20
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “altar”

De izquierda a derecha: las pocas palabras que cargan el habla diaria, luego la cola larga casi invisible.altarcae aquí:

#6,615

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

El eje es logarítmico: cada tick marca unas diez veces menos frecuencia. En la misma franja de rareza aparecen “aporta” (#6,616), “agrupación” (#6,613), “ataca” (#6,617). Entre 7,704 lemas con “A”, “altar” va en #6,615. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around altar (IPA [al̪ˈt̪aɾ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,615 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for altar, with forms such as "alatr", "alltar", and "altarr". 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, "ATR", "alto", "amar", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is altar, spelled A-L-T-A-R.

Definition

1
Montículo, piedra o construcción elevada donde se celebran ritos religiosos como sacrificios, ofrendas, etc.
2
Piedra o roca consagrada.
3
Especie de mesa consagrada donde el sacerdote celebra el sacrificio de la misa.
4
Conjunto constituido por la mesa consagrada, la base, las gradas, el retablo, el sagrario, etc.
5
Piedra que separa la plaza del hogar en los hornos de reverbero.

Synonyms

ara

This word in other languages

altar(English)autel(Français)Altar(Deutsch)altar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

alatr
alltar
altarr
altra
alttar
atlar
latar

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of altar - 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.

Edit distance from "altar"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "altar"?

"altar" is spelled A-L-T-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is [al̪ˈt̪aɾ].

What does "altar" mean?

As a noun, "altar" means: Montículo, piedra o construcción elevada donde se celebran ritos religiosos como sacrificios, ofrendas, etc.

What words are commonly confused with "altar"?

"altar" is commonly confused with "ATR", "alto", "amar". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "altar"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "altar" is [al̪ˈt̪aɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "altar" come from?

"altar" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "altar", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

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