alcazar
\al.ka.zaʁ\
The verdict
“alcazar” is uncommon French (frequency #63,495 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,495
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Palais fortifié en Espagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alcazar · alcazar · French
alcazar · rank #63,495 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,495
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alarmantes
Nearest frequency peer: alarmantes (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « alcazar »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- added
added
36,510 corpus weight
- Alaphilippe
Alaphilippe
36,508 corpus weight
- alarmantes
alarmantes
36,507 corpus weight
- alcazar
alcazar
36,506 corpus weight
- allia
allia
36,504 corpus weight
- alléguée
alléguée
36,503 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alcazar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alcazar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.ka.zaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,495 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alcazar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alcazar is uncommon French at frequency #63,495 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \al.ka.zaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for alcazar, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is alcazar, spelled A-L-C-A-Z-A-R.
Definition
- 1Palais fortifié en Espagne.
- 2Par association, établissement de style mauresque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alcazar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au XIIIe siècle, Alphonse X entreprit la construction d'un premier palais, de style gothique sur le site de l'alcazar musulman.
Elle fut autrefois la Julia Romula des Romains et les rois maures y avaient un alcazar qui est aujourd'hui en très bon état.
This word in other languages
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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