altura
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,435
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
altura is aSpanishnoun. It means: Distancia vertical de un punto a la base, longitud vertical. Pronounced [al̪ˈt̪uɾa]. It ranks #1,435 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with aura and Arturo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | altura |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [al̪ˈt̪uɾa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,435 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for altura is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [al̪ˈt̪uɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,435 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for altura, with forms such as "alltura", "altrua", and "alttura". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "aura", "Arturo", "autora", and more, 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 altura, spelled A-L-T-U-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Distancia vertical de un punto a la base, longitud vertical.
- 2Distancia vertical medida con relación al nivel del mar.
- 3Distancia vertical medida con relación a una superficie cualquiera, como la de la tierra.
- 4Ángulo que forma con el plano del horizonte una línea recta en dirección a un astro.
- 5Distancia del ecuador medida en grados.
- 6Cumbres de montes y montañas.
- 7Nivel entre dos cosas que se comparan.
- 8El cielo.
- 9Lugar elevado en el aire.
- 10Mérito.
- 11Dignidad.
- 12Distancia perpendicular de un lado o una cara, al punto más alejado o vértice.
- 13Ubicación de un sonido en una escala de frecuencias que va desde el sonido más agudo al más grave.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: alltura,altrua,alttura,altuar,alturra,alutra,atlura,latura
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for altura
Misspelling Variants of "altura"
Frequency rank: #1,435 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter A in our Spanish index: