lava
[ˈlaβ̞a]
The verdict
“lava” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,980) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,980
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mezcla de distintos minerales derretidos, que brota de la tierra en las erupciones volcánicas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-lava · lava · Spanish
lava · rank #8,980 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,980
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH laterales
Nearest frequency peer: laterales (-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 “lava”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- just
just
91,024 corpus weight
- kilo
kilo
91,023 corpus weight
- laterales
laterales
91,022 corpus weight
- lava
lava
91,021 corpus weight
- licitación
licitación
91,020 corpus weight
- light
light
91,019 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “lava” 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 | lava |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlaβ̞a] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #8,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “lava”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lava is neighbouring look-alikes ("lea", "law", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈlaβ̞a]. Frequency #8,980 among 2,069 “L” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for lava, with forms such as "laav", "lavva", and "llava". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lea", "law", "Loa", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is lava, spelled L-A-V-A.
Definition
- 1Mezcla de distintos minerales derretidos, que brota de la tierra en las erupciones volcánicas.
- 2Mineral sólido que resulta de la erupción de un volcán al enfriarse, y que se emplea en la construcción y otros usos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lava appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Las lavas fluyen de los cráteres y se derraman sobre la superficie formando coladas. El flujo de las lavas depende de la viscosidad, volumen, temperatura y de su composición, así como de la topografía
Sigue otra sala de mármoles, otra de tierras calcáreas, otra de cuarzos, cristales y piedras duras, otra de sustancias vitrificables y productos volcánicos, donde hay crecida porción de diferentes lavas, la mayor parte del Vesubio
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- laav
- lavva
- llava
- lvaa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lava - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).