lancha
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,744
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
lancha is aSpanishnoun. It means: Embarcación de pequeñas dimensiones, con motor y sin cubierta, que se usa en zonas costeras, lagos y ríos. Pronounced [ˈlãnʲt͡ʃa]. Often confused with lucha and lanza.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lancha |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlãnʲt͡ʃa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,744 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for lancha is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlãnʲt͡ʃa]. Corpus data places it at rank #17,744 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for lancha, with forms such as "alncha", "lacnha", and "lancah". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "lucha", "lanza", "landa", 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 lancha, spelled L-A-N-C-H-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Embarcación de pequeñas dimensiones, con motor y sin cubierta, que se usa en zonas costeras, lagos y ríos.
- 2Embarcación menor sin cubierta, con remos o motor, que se lleva a bordo de los buques para labores auxiliares.
- 3Embarcación a vela y remos o motor, que llevan a bordo los buques y que se usa para transporte de carga y pasajeros, u otras labores de fuerza.
- 4Pequeño bote a remos.
- 5Baile tradicional de Coquimbo, en el Norte Chico de Chile, que se baila con un pañuelo en la mano y en parejas. Es similar a otro baile llamado "la danza", aunque más rápida.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: alncha,lacnha,lancah,lanccha,lanchha,lanhca,lanncha,llancha,lnacha
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lancha
Misspelling Variants of "lancha"
Frequency rank: #17,744 in Spanish
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