aluminio

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The Spanish entry for aluminio is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aluˈminjo]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,464 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "El aluminio es el elemento químico, de símbolo Al y número atómico 13. Con el 8,13 % es el elemento metálico más abundante en la corteza terrestre. Su ligereza, conductividad eléctrica, resistencia...".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for aluminio, with forms such as "alluminio", "almuinio", and "aluimnio". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "alumno", 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 aluminio, spelled A-L-U-M-I-N-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.