LED
[ˈleð̞]
The verdict
“LED” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,851) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,851
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dispositivo semiconductor (diodo) que emite luz policromática, es decir, con diferentes longitudes de onda, cuando se polariza en directa y es atravesado por la corriente eléctrica. El color depend...
Corpus desk
Index ES-led · LED · Spanish
LED · rank #12,851 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,851
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH lecho
Nearest frequency peer: lecho (-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 “LED”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- juntan
juntan
87,153 corpus weight
- laurel
laurel
87,152 corpus weight
- lecho
lecho
87,151 corpus weight
- LED
LED
87,150 corpus weight
- licor
licor
87,149 corpus weight
- lidera
lidera
87,148 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “LED” 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 | LED |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [ˈleð̞] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “LED”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for LED is neighbouring look-alikes ("lo", "li", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [ˈleð̞]. Frequency #12,851 among 2,069 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Dispositivo semiconductor (diodo) que emite luz policromática, es decir, con diferentes longitudes de onda, cuando se polariza en directa y es atravesado por la corriente eléctrica. El color depend...".
No misspelling variants are generated for LED in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lo", "li", "Lu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is LED, spelled L-E-D.
Definition
- 1Dispositivo semiconductor (diodo) que emite luz policromática, es decir, con diferentes longitudes de onda, cuando se polariza en directa y es atravesado por la corriente eléctrica. El color depende del material semiconductor empleado en la construcción del diodo, pudiendo variar desde el ultravioleta, pasando por el espectro de luz visible, hasta el infrarrojo.
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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