langosta
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,467
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
langosta is aSpanishnoun. It means: Nombre común para las formas gregarias de los insectos acrídidos (del orden de los ortópteros), con patas posteriores adaptadas para el salto y dos pares de alas. Bajo ciertas circunstancias ecológ... Pronounced [lãŋˈgost̪a]. Often confused with langostas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | langosta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [lãŋˈgost̪a] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #23,467 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for langosta is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [lãŋˈgost̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #23,467 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 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for langosta, with forms such as "alngosta", "lagnosta", and "langgosta". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "langostas", 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 langosta, spelled L-A-N-G-O-S-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nombre común para las formas gregarias de los insectos acrídidos (del orden de los ortópteros), con patas posteriores adaptadas para el salto y dos pares de alas. Bajo ciertas circunstancias ecológicas y fisiológicas, pueden reunirse en enjambres ("nubes de langostas") que emigran y pueden llegar a causar hambrunas y grandes pérdidas económicas al devorar los cultivos que encuentren a su paso.
- 2Crustáceos marinos de gran tamaño, con todas sus patas terminadas en pinzas, cuatro antenas y cola larga. Su carne es una comida apreciada.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: alngosta,lagnosta,langgosta,langosat,langossta,langostta,langotsa,langsota,lanngosta,lanogsta,llangosta,lnagosta
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Misspelling Variants of "langosta"
Frequency rank: #23,467 in Spanish
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