habla
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#486
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
habla is aSpanishnoun. It means: Capacidad de comunicarse mediante el lenguaje oral. Pronounced [ˈaβ̞la]. It ranks #486 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Haya and hola.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | habla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaβ̞la] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #486 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for habla is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaβ̞la]. Corpus data places it at rank #486 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for habla, with forms such as "ahbla", "habal", and "habbla". 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, "Haya", "hola", "haga", 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 habla, spelled H-A-B-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Capacidad de comunicarse mediante el lenguaje oral.
- 2Uso particular de la lengua.
- 3Acción o efecto de hablar.
- 4Variedad local de un idioma.
- 5En oposición al sistema abstracto de una lengua, realización concreta de un acto lingüístico.
- 6Discurso u oración pronunciados en público.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ahbla,habal,habbla,hablla,halba,havla,hbala,hhabla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "habla"
Frequency rank: #486 in Spanish
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