laboral
[laβ̞oˈɾal]
The verdict
“laboral” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #1,822 in Spanish word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #1,822
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Perteneciente o relacionado con el trabajo.
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 | laboral |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [laβ̞oˈɾal] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,822 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “laboral” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for laboral is 7 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [laβ̞oˈɾal]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,822 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Perteneciente o relacionado con el trabajo.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for laboral, with forms such as "alboral", "labboral", and "laboarl". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "liberal", "labores", "lateral", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is laboral, spelled L-A-B-O-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Perteneciente o relacionado con el trabajo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: alboral,labboral,laboarl,laborall,laborla,laborral,labroal,laobral,lavoral,lbaoral,llaboral
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of laboral - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “laboral”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is L-A-B-O-R-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [laβ̞oˈɾal] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “liberal” - see the side-by-side comparison. laboral vs liberal
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.