Las Vegas

/[las ˈβ̞eɣ̞as]/ name

Letters

9 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Las Vegas is aSpanishname. It means: Ciudad de Estados Unidos, del Estado de Nevada, cerca del lago Mead, 360 km al NE de Los Ángeles. Pronounced [las ˈβ̞eɣ̞as].

Key facts for Las Vegas
PropertyValue
HeadwordLas Vegas
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechName
IPA[las ˈβ̞eɣ̞as]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Las Vegas is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for Las Vegas is 9 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [las ˈβ̞eɣ̞as]. 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: "Ciudad de Estados Unidos, del Estado de Nevada, cerca del lago Mead, 360 km al NE de Los Ángeles.".

No misspelling variants are generated for Las Vegas 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 Las Vegas, spelled L-A-S- -V-E-G-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ciudad de Estados Unidos, del Estado de Nevada, cerca del lago Mead, 360 km al NE de Los Ángeles.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Las Vegas"?
"Las Vegas" is spelled L-A-S- -V-E-G-A-S. The IPA pronunciation is [las ˈβ̞eɣ̞as].
What does "Las Vegas" mean?
As a name, "Las Vegas" means: Ciudad de Estados Unidos, del Estado de Nevada, cerca del lago Mead, 360 km al NE de Los Ángeles.
How do you pronounce "Las Vegas"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Las Vegas" is [las ˈβ̞eɣ̞as]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Las Vegas" come from?
"Las Vegas" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.