Alcantara
\al.kɑ̃.ta.ʁa\
The verdict
“Alcantara” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,256. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,256
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune d’Espagne, située dans la province de Cáceres et la Communauté autonome d’Estrémadure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alcantara · Alcantara · French
Alcantara · rank #43,256 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,256
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH albret
Nearest frequency peer: albret (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Alcantara »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Aiden
Aiden
56,748 corpus weight
- ajustés
ajustés
56,747 corpus weight
- albret
albret
56,746 corpus weight
- Alcantara
Alcantara
56,745 corpus weight
- Alexei
Alexei
56,744 corpus weight
- alpines
alpines
56,743 corpus weight
What this shows « Alcantara » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Alcantara |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \al.kɑ̃.ta.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #43,256 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Alcantara »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Alcantara (IPA \al.kɑ̃.ta.ʁa\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #43,256 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Alcantara, with forms such as "aclantara", "alacntara", and "alcanatra". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Alcantara, spelled A-L-C-A-N-T-A-R-A.
Definition
- 1Commune d’Espagne, située dans la province de Cáceres et la Communauté autonome d’Estrémadure.
- 2Ordre chevaleresque d’Espagne, institué en 1170.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Alcantara appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 1212, Alphonse IX. Roi de Castille, ayant repris Alcantara sur les Mores, en confia la garde & la défense, d’abord aux Chevaliers de Calatrava, & deux ans après aux Chevaliers du Poirier, autre Ordre Militaire institué en 1170 par Gomez Fernand, & approuvé par le Pape Alexandre III. sous la regle de S. Benoît. Ce fut à cette occasion, qu’ils quitterent…
L’Ordre d'Alcántara.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aclantara
- alacntara
- alcanatra
- alcanntara
- alcantaar
- alcantarra
- alcantraa
- alcanttara
- alcatnara
- alccantara
- alcnatara
- allcantara
- lacantara
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Alcantara - 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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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