Larry

//ˈlæɹ.ɪ// name

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,670

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

14

similar word pairs

Larry is aSpanishname. It means: Hipocorístico de los nombres ingleses Laurence y Lawrence. Pronounced /ˈlæɹ.ɪ/. It ranks #9,670 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with lay and lazy.

Key facts for Larry
PropertyValue
HeadwordLarry
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechName
IPA/ˈlæɹ.ɪ/
Letters5
Frequency rank#9,670
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Larry in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for Larry is 5 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈlæɹ.ɪ/. Corpus data places it at rank #9,670 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Hipocorístico de los nombres ingleses Laurence y Lawrence.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for Larry, with forms such as "alrry", "larryy", and "lary". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "lay", "lazy", "Laura", 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 Larry, spelled L-A-R-R-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Hipocorístico de los nombres ingleses Laurence y Lawrence.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: alrry,larryy,lary,laryr,llarry,lrary

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Larry

Misspelling Variants of "Larry"

alrry5larryy6lary4laryr5llarry6lrary5
Misspelling Variants of "Larry"

Frequency rank: #9,670 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Larry"?
"Larry" is spelled L-A-R-R-Y. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈlæɹ.ɪ/.
What does "Larry" mean?
As a name, "Larry" means: Hipocorístico de los nombres ingleses Laurence y Lawrence.
What words are commonly confused with "Larry"?
"Larry" is commonly confused with "lay", "lazy", "Laura". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Larry"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Larry" is /ˈlæɹ.ɪ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Larry" come from?
"Larry" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Spanish words

Other entries that begin with the letter L in our Spanish index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.