ela
[ˈɛlɐ]
The verdict
“ela” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,307) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,307
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ella.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ela · ela · Spanish
ela · rank #21,307 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,307
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH ecos
Nearest frequency peer: ecos (-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 “ela”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- dominical
dominical
78,697 corpus weight
- ecos
ecos
78,695 corpus weight
- ela
ela
78,694 corpus weight
- Elba
Elba
78,693 corpus weight
- elocuente
elocuente
78,692 corpus weight
- emerge
emerge
78,690 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ela” 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 | ela |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [ˈɛlɐ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,307 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ela”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ela is neighbouring look-alikes ("en", "ex", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced [ˈɛlɐ]. Frequency #21,307 among 5,243 “E” headwords. Gloss: "Ella.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ela, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is ela, spelled E-L-A.
Definition
- 1Ella.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).