laca
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#38,780
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
laca is aSpanishnoun. It means: Barniz, cubierta de maderas y otros materiales. Pronounced [ˈlaka]. Often confused with las and lea.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlaka] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #38,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for laca is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlaka]. Corpus data places it at rank #38,780 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for laca, with forms such as "alca", "laac", and "lacca". 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, "las", "lea", "law", 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 laca, spelled L-A-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Barniz, cubierta de maderas y otros materiales.
- 2Sustancia para fijar el peinado del pelo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: alca,laac,lacca,lcaa,llaca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for laca
Misspelling Variants of "laca"
Frequency rank: #38,780 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter L in our Spanish index: