él

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for él is 2 letters long, classified as apron, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈel]. Corpus data places it at rank #142 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nominativo y preposicional del pronombre personal de la tercera persona del singular en el género masculino.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for él 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, "en", "ex", "et", 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 él, spelled É-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.