aula
[ˈawla]
The verdict
“aula” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,822) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,822
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sala de una institución educativa, destinada principalmente al dictado de clases.
Corpus desk
Index ES-aula · aula · Spanish
aula · rank #7,822 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,822
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH au
Nearest frequency peer: au (-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 “aula”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- anónima
anónima
92,183 corpus weight
- arrancar
arrancar
92,181 corpus weight
- au
au
92,180 corpus weight
- aula
aula
92,179 corpus weight
- automático
automático
92,178 corpus weight
- basadas
basadas
92,176 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “aula” 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 | aula |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈawla] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,822 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “aula”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for aula is neighbouring look-alikes ("aún", "aya", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈawla]. Frequency #7,822 among 7,704 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for aula, with forms such as "alua", "aual", and "aulla". 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, "aún", "aya", "aux", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is aula, spelled A-U-L-A.
Definition
- 1Sala de una institución educativa, destinada principalmente al dictado de clases.
- 2Morada o palacio de un soberano.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alua
- aual
- aulla
- uala
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aula - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "aula", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).