alla
/a.la/
The verdict
“alla” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,977) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,977
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 1
- tracked misspelling
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (il, elle, on) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de aller
Corpus desk
Index ES-alla · alla · Spanish
alla · rank #6,977 · 1 variant · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,977
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 1 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH agregado
Nearest frequency peer: agregado (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “alla”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- abc
abc
93,028 corpus weight
- adquirido
adquirido
93,027 corpus weight
- agregado
agregado
93,025 corpus weight
- alla
alla
93,024 corpus weight
- anciano
anciano
93,022 corpus weight
- asilo
asilo
93,021 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “alla” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| 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) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “alla”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for alla is neighbouring look-alikes ("Ana", "ama", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /a.la/. Frequency #6,977 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Tercera persona del singular (il, elle, on) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de aller".
Our generated misspelling index lists 1 likely wrong-spelling variant for alla, including "alal". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ana", "ama", "aya", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is alla, spelled A-L-L-A.
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
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alla - 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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "alla", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).