lanza
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,715
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lanza is aSpanishnoun. It means: Arma formada por un asta de longitud considerable que en uno de sus extremos posee una punta afilada hecha de algún material resistente como hierro, piedra o hueso, entre otros. Se ha usado en casi... Pronounced [ˈlãnsa]. It ranks #3,715 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Luna and Lara.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lanza |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlãnsa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,715 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for lanza is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlãnsa]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,715 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for lanza, with forms such as "alnza", "lanaz", and "lannza". 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, "Luna", "Lara", "lata", 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 lanza, spelled L-A-N-Z-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Arma formada por un asta de longitud considerable que en uno de sus extremos posee una punta afilada hecha de algún material resistente como hierro, piedra o hueso, entre otros. Se ha usado en casi todas las épocas y culturas por su facilidad de fabricación y de manejo.
- 2En un carro, vara unida al eje delantero. Sirve para dirigir el vehículo.
- 3Tubo, generalmente de metal, que se instala en un extremo de las mangueras o bombas para facilitar la dirección del chorro de agua.
- 4Tipo de soldado, caballero o escolta que, contando con dos cabalgaduras, servía como vasallo a reyes, señores o comunidades en la guerra y recibía tierras o concesiones especiales como recompensa.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: alnza,lanaz,lannza,lanzza,lazna,llanza,lnaza
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lanza
Misspelling Variants of "lanza"
Frequency rank: #3,715 in Spanish
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