lag
[ˈlaɣ̞]
The verdict
“lag” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #30,127) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #30,127
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Retardo o demora en los videojuegos, causado generalmente por fallas en la conexión a internet.
Corpus desk
Index ES-lag · lag · Spanish
lag · rank #30,127 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,127
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH kristen
Nearest frequency peer: kristen (-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 “lag”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- kick
kick
69,877 corpus weight
- kingdom
kingdom
69,876 corpus weight
- kristen
kristen
69,875 corpus weight
- lag
lag
69,874 corpus weight
- Latorre
Latorre
69,872 corpus weight
- len
len
69,870 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “lag” 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 | lag |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlaɣ̞] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #30,127 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “lag”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lag is neighbouring look-alikes ("lo", "le", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈlaɣ̞]. Frequency #30,127 among 2,069 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Retardo o demora en los videojuegos, causado generalmente por fallas en la conexión a internet.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lag, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lo", "le", "li", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 lag, spelled L-A-G.
Definition
- 1Retardo o demora en los videojuegos, causado generalmente por fallas en la conexión a internet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lag appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pues tú no eres rival verás que siempre estarás por detrás de los demás En los temas quizás llegarás ser solo uno más A los que juzgaron hoy les digo ¡fuck! Rapeo con flow, rapeo sin lag Con un ritmo del Soma bestial Clavo el rap en el beat y lo hago especial (¡bonus track!)
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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