Leiden

/[ˈlejð̞ẽn]/ name

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#57,892

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Leiden is aSpanishname. It means: Ciudad de Holanda, junto a los dos tramos canalizados del Rin, a 9 km del mar, 15 km al NE de La Haya. Pronounced [ˈlejð̞ẽn].

Key facts for Leiden
PropertyValue
HeadwordLeiden
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechName
IPA[ˈlejð̞ẽn]
Letters6
Frequency rank#57,892
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for Leiden is 6 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlejð̞ẽn]. Corpus data places it at rank #57,892 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ciudad de Holanda, junto a los dos tramos canalizados del Rin, a 9 km del mar, 15 km al NE de La Haya.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Leiden 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 Leiden, spelled L-E-I-D-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ciudad de Holanda, junto a los dos tramos canalizados del Rin, a 9 km del mar, 15 km al NE de La Haya.

Frequency rank: #57,892 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Leiden"?
"Leiden" is spelled L-E-I-D-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈlejð̞ẽn].
What does "Leiden" mean?
As a name, "Leiden" means: Ciudad de Holanda, junto a los dos tramos canalizados del Rin, a 9 km del mar, 15 km al NE de La Haya.
How do you pronounce "Leiden"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Leiden" is [ˈlejð̞ẽn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Leiden" 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.