ellas

/[ˈeʝas]/ pron

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#606

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

ellas is aSpanishpron. It means: Nominativo del pronombre personal femenino para la tercera persona del plural. Pronounced [ˈeʝas]. It ranks #606 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with els and esas.

Key facts for ellas
PropertyValue
Headwordellas
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPron
IPA[ˈeʝas]
Letters5
Frequency rank#606
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of ellas in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for ellas is 5 letters long, classified as apron, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈeʝas]. Corpus data places it at rank #606 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nominativo del pronombre personal femenino para la tercera persona del plural.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for ellas, with forms such as "elals", "elas", and "ellass". 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, "els", "esas", "ello", 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 ellas, spelled E-L-L-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nominativo del pronombre personal femenino para la tercera persona del plural.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: elals,elas,ellass,ellsa,lelas

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ellas

Misspelling Variants of "ellas"

elals5elas4ellass6ellsa5lelas5
Misspelling Variants of "ellas"

Frequency rank: #606 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ellas"?
"ellas" is spelled E-L-L-A-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈeʝas].
What does "ellas" mean?
As a pron, "ellas" means: Nominativo del pronombre personal femenino para la tercera persona del plural.
What words are commonly confused with "ellas"?
"ellas" is commonly confused with "els", "esas", "ello". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "ellas"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ellas" is [ˈeʝas]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ellas" come from?
"ellas" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.