alud
[aˈluð̞]
The verdict
“alud” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #37,942. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,942
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Derrumbe de las nieves de los montes a los valles en gran cantidad y con estrépito.
Corpus desk
Index ES-alud · alud · Spanish
alud · rank #37,942 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,942
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH alternan
Nearest frequency peer: alternan (-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 “alud”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- aliciente
aliciente
62,063 corpus weight
- alojan
alojan
62,062 corpus weight
- alquilan
alquilan
62,061 corpus weight
- alternan
alternan
62,060 corpus weight
- alud
alud
62,059 corpus weight
- Amancio
Amancio
62,056 corpus weight
What this shows “alud” 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 | alud |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈluð̞] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #37,942 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “alud”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around alud (IPA [aˈluð̞]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,942 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Derrumbe de las nieves de los montes a los valles en gran cantidad y con estrépito.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for alud, with forms such as "aldu", "allud", and "aludd". 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, "au", "aún", "and", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is alud, spelled A-L-U-D.
Definition
- 1Derrumbe de las nieves de los montes a los valles en gran cantidad y con estrépito.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aldu
- allud
- aludd
- auld
- laud
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alud - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).