lata
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,746
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lata is aSpanishnoun. It means: Envase hecho de hojalata, con su contenido o sin él. Pronounced [ˈlat̪a]. It ranks #7,746 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with lea and law.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lata |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlat̪a] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,746 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for lata is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlat̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,746 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for lata, with forms such as "laat", "latta", and "llata". 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, "lea", "law", "let", 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 lata, spelled L-A-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Envase hecho de hojalata, con su contenido o sin él.
- 2Hojalata.
- 3Tabla delgada sobre la cual se aseguran las tejas.
- 4Discurso o conversación fastidiosa, y en general, todo lo que causa hastío y disgusto a alguien.
- 5Vehículo viejo.
- 6Cosa monótona, aburrida, sin interés.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: laat,latta,llata,ltaa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lata
Misspelling Variants of "lata"
Frequency rank: #7,746 in Spanish
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