lengua
[ˈlẽŋgwa]
The verdict
“lengua” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #1,057. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,057
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Órgano ubicado en el interior de la boca de personas y animales, con ella se percibe el sentido del gusto y se modifican los sonidos producidos en la boca.
Corpus desk
Index ES-lengua · lengua · Spanish
lengua · rank #1,057 · 8 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,057
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH federal
Nearest frequency peer: federal (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “lengua”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- económico
económico
98,947 corpus weight
- edificio
edificio
98,946 corpus weight
- federal
federal
98,945 corpus weight
- lengua
lengua
98,944 corpus weight
- mesa
mesa
98,943 corpus weight
- naturaleza
naturaleza
98,942 corpus weight
What this shows “lengua” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | lengua |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlẽŋgwa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,057 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “lengua”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around lengua (IPA [ˈlẽŋgwa]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,057 among 2,069 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for lengua, with forms such as "elngua", "legnua", and "lengau". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "lenta", "lingua", "lenguas", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is lengua, spelled L-E-N-G-U-A.
Definition
- 1Órgano ubicado en el interior de la boca de personas y animales, con ella se percibe el sentido del gusto y se modifican los sonidos producidos en la boca.
- 2Idioma o código que usa una comunidad de hablantes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lengua appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lleva piercings en la lengua y tiene una cicatriz en la cara
Diccionario de la Lengua Chilena
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elngua
- legnua
- lengau
- lenggua
- lenngua
- lenuga
- llengua
- lnegua
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lengua - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).