lápiz de labios
[ˈlapis ð̞e ˈlaβ̞jos]
The verdict
“lápiz de labios” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Cosmético untuoso, presentado en forma de barra, utilizado para colorear los labios
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lápiz de labios |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈlapis ð̞e ˈlaβ̞jos] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lápiz de labios” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for lápiz de labios is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlapis ð̞e ˈlaβ̞jos]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Cosmético untuoso, presentado en forma de barra, utilizado para colorear los labios".
No misspelling variants are generated for lápiz de labios in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 lápiz de labios, spelled L-Á-P-I-Z- -D-E- -L-A-B-I-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cosmético untuoso, presentado en forma de barra, utilizado para colorear los labios
Synonyms
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is L-Á-P-I-Z- -D-E- -L-A-B-I-O-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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