LaTeX

/[laˈt̪eks]/ name

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#55,018

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

LaTeX is aSpanishname. It means: Es un lenguaje de marcado para documentos, y un sistema de preparación de documentos, formado por un gran conjunto de macros de TeX. Pronounced [laˈt̪eks].

Key facts for LaTeX
PropertyValue
HeadwordLaTeX
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechName
IPA[laˈt̪eks]
Letters5
Frequency rank#55,018
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for LaTeX is 5 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [laˈt̪eks]. Corpus data places it at rank #55,018 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Es un lenguaje de marcado para documentos, y un sistema de preparación de documentos, formado por un gran conjunto de macros de TeX.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for LaTeX in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 LaTeX, spelled L-A-T-E-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Es un lenguaje de marcado para documentos, y un sistema de preparación de documentos, formado por un gran conjunto de macros de TeX.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #55,018 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "LaTeX"?
"LaTeX" is spelled L-A-T-E-X. The IPA pronunciation is [laˈt̪eks].
What does "LaTeX" mean?
As a name, "LaTeX" means: Es un lenguaje de marcado para documentos, y un sistema de preparación de documentos, formado por un gran conjunto de macros de TeX.
How do you pronounce "LaTeX"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "LaTeX" is [laˈt̪eks]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "LaTeX" come from?
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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.