laúd
[laˈuð̞]
The verdict
“laúd” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #42,534. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,534
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrumento musical antiguo de cuerda, formado por una caja de resonancia ovalada y abombada por la parte trasera, seis pares de cuerdas, y cuyo clavijero forma un ángulo muy pronunciado con el man...
Corpus desk
Index ES-laud · laúd · Spanish
laúd · rank #42,534 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,534
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH Lavarte
Nearest frequency peer: Lavarte (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “laúd”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- large
large
57,472 corpus weight
- lateralmente
lateralmente
57,470 corpus weight
- laureado
laureado
57,469 corpus weight
- Lavarte
Lavarte
57,468 corpus weight
- laúd
laúd
57,467 corpus weight
- librando
librando
57,463 corpus weight
What this shows “laúd” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | laúd |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [laˈuð̞] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #42,534 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “laúd”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around laúd (IPA [laˈuð̞]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,534 among 2,069 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for laúd, with forms such as "alúd", "ladú", and "laúdd". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Lu", "LD", "luz", 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is laúd, spelled L-A-Ú-D.
Definition
- 1Instrumento musical antiguo de cuerda, formado por una caja de resonancia ovalada y abombada por la parte trasera, seis pares de cuerdas, y cuyo clavijero forma un ángulo muy pronunciado con el mango, que es corto.
- 2Embarcación pequeña de velas triangulares.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how laúd appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
No fabricaba los instrumentos convencionales: violines, violas o clavijeros, sino laúdes arcaicos, ….
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alúd
- ladú
- laúdd
- llaúd
- lúad
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of laúd - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "laúd", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).