ala
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,894
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ala is aSpanishnoun. It means: Las alas son extremidades o apéndices que poseen algunos grupos de animales, normalmente utilizan estas alas para poder volar. Pronounced [ˈala]. It ranks #3,894 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with ay and as.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ala |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈala] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,894 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ala is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈala]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,894 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ala in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ay", "as", "am", 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 ala, spelled A-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Las alas son extremidades o apéndices que poseen algunos grupos de animales, normalmente utilizan estas alas para poder volar.
- 2un cuerpo de perfil aerodinámico capaz de generar una diferencia de presiones entre su intradós y extradós al desplazarse por el aire lo que, a su vez, produce sustentación.
- 3Extensión de la parte principal de un edificio.
- 4Parte que sobresale de un tejado para resguardarlo de la lluvia.
- 5Borde saliente de algo, especialmente de un sombrero.
- 6Movimiento político, especialmente si se aparta de la corriente mayoritaria.
- 7En un perfil metálico en T, cada una de las secciones que están en los extremos, que son paralelas entre sí y están unidas de forma perpendicular por el alma.
- 8Axila.
- 9En el juego del ajedrez las que forman los peones de cada uno de los caballos con el peón del roque inmediato, y por consiguiente cada jugador tiene su ala izquierda y derecha.
- 10Nombre de algunas secciones del esfenoides.
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Frequency rank: #3,894 in Spanish
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