altitud
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,967
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
altitud is aSpanishnoun. It means: Distancia vertical entre un objeto y un punto de referencia, habitualmente el nivel del mar o la elevación del terreno. Pronounced [al̪t̪iˈt̪uð̞]. Often confused with aptitud and actitud.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | altitud |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [al̪t̪iˈt̪uð̞] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,967 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for altitud is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [al̪t̪iˈt̪uð̞]. Corpus data places it at rank #10,967 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 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for altitud, with forms such as "alittud", "alltitud", and "altitdu". 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, "aptitud", "actitud", 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 altitud, spelled A-L-T-I-T-U-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Distancia vertical entre un objeto y un punto de referencia, habitualmente el nivel del mar o la elevación del terreno.
- 2Cada una de las regiones en que se divide la atmósfera según su altitud₁ sobre el nivel del mar.
- 3Distancia angular vertical entre el horizonte y la posición aparente de un objeto en el firmamento.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: alittud,alltitud,altitdu,altittud,altitudd,altiutd,alttitud,alttiud,atlitud
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for altitud
Misspelling Variants of "altitud"
Frequency rank: #10,967 in Spanish
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