Leicester
The verdict
“Leicester” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #28,057 in Spanish word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #28,057
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
- 14
- tracked misspellings
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Ciudad del Reino Unido, del condado homónimo Inglaterra, 60 km al ENE de Birmingham, junto al río Soar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Leicester |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [lejsesˈt̪eɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #28,057 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Leicester” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Leicester is 9 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [lejsesˈt̪eɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #28,057 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ciudad del Reino Unido, del condado homónimo Inglaterra, 60 km al ENE de Birmingham, junto al río Soar.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Leicester, with forms such as "elicester", "leciester", and "leiccester". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. 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 Leicester, spelled L-E-I-C-E-S-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ciudad del Reino Unido, del condado homónimo Inglaterra, 60 km al ENE de Birmingham, junto al río Soar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: elicester,leciester,leiccester,leicesetr,leicesster,leicesterr,leicestre,leicestter,leicetser,leicseter,leiecster,leisester,liecester,lleicester
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Leicester — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "Leicester"
Frequency rank: #28,057 in Spanish
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Using “Leicester”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is L-E-I-C-E-S-T-E-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [lejsesˈt̪eɾ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Nearby Spanish words
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