lema
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,195
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lema is aSpanishnoun. It means: Frase o expresión distintiva que se emplea como guía para la conducta o latiguillo en la comunicación. Pronounced [ˈlema]. It ranks #6,195 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with les and ley.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lema |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlema] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #6,195 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for lema is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlema]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,195 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for lema, with forms such as "elma", "leam", and "lemma". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "les", "ley", "lpm", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 lema, spelled L-E-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Frase o expresión distintiva que se emplea como guía para la conducta o latiguillo en la comunicación.
- 2Leyenda que forma parte de un blasón.
- 3Asunto sobre el que versa un discurso, en particular la entrada (palabra o frase) de un diccionario.
- 4Texto breve que resume lo principal de una obra literaria al comienzo de la misma.
- 5Vocablo que se utiliza para titular artículos de diccionarios y otras obras de referencia.
- 6Nombre supuesto que se utiliza como contraseña al evaluar anónimamente un texto.
- 7Proposición ya demostrada o tomada por axioma en la prueba de un teorema.
- 8Con la ley de lemas, partido, coalición política o listas que se presentan a elecciones conjuntamente, aunque puede que con diferentes candidatos.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: elma,leam,lemma,llema,lmea
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lema
Misspelling Variants of "lema"
Frequency rank: #6,195 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter L in our Spanish index: