alla
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,977
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
1
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
alla is aSpanishverb. It means: Tercera persona del singular (il, elle, on) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de aller Pronounced /a.la/. It ranks #6,977 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Ana and ama.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /a.la/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #6,977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 1 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for alla is 4 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /a.la/. Corpus data places it at rank #6,977 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tercera persona del singular (il, elle, on) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de aller".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 1 documented wrong-spelling variant for alla, including "alal". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ana", "ama", "aya", 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 alla, spelled A-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (il, elle, on) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de aller
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: alal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for alla
Misspelling Variants of "alla"
Frequency rank: #6,977 in Spanish
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Other entries that begin with the letter A in our Spanish index: