las
[las]
The verdict
“las” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15) as an article. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Artículo determinado femenino plural. Antecede a sustantivos femeninos en plural denotando que estos deben tomarse como información general consabida.
Corpus desk
Index ES-las · las · Spanish
las · rank #15 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #15
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH del
Nearest frequency peer: del (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “las”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- se
se
99,990 corpus weight
- por
por
99,989 corpus weight
- del
del
99,987 corpus weight
- las
las
99,986 corpus weight
- con
con
99,985 corpus weight
- para
para
99,983 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “las” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | las |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Article |
| IPA | [las] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “las”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for las is neighbouring look-alikes ("lo", "le", …), not just typos; it is anarticle pronounced [las]. Frequency #15 among 2,069 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Artículo determinado femenino plural. Antecede a sustantivos femeninos en plural denotando que estos deben tomarse como información general consabida.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for las, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lo", "le", "li", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is las, spelled L-A-S.
Definition
- 1Artículo determinado femenino plural. Antecede a sustantivos femeninos en plural denotando que estos deben tomarse como información general consabida.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how las appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En la oración "recibí las cartas", las denota "cartas" ya definidas de cuya existencia sabía el hablante con anterioridad.
En la oración "las personas son así", las denota que "personas" se entiende en su sentido genérico.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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