lenguaje
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,551
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
lenguaje is aSpanishnoun. It means: Sistema para la comunicación de conceptos que utiliza sonidos hablados o representados con un sistema de símbolos. Usualmente está estructurado con gramática y un sistema de escritura como un alfab... Pronounced [lẽŋˈgwaxe]. It ranks #1,551 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with lenguas and lenguajes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lenguaje |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [lẽŋˈgwaxe] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,551 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for lenguaje is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [lẽŋˈgwaxe]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,551 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for lenguaje, with forms such as "elnguaje", "legnuaje", and "lengauje". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "lenguas", "lenguajes", "lengua", 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 lenguaje, spelled L-E-N-G-U-A-J-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sistema para la comunicación de conceptos que utiliza sonidos hablados o representados con un sistema de símbolos. Usualmente está estructurado con gramática y un sistema de escritura como un alfabeto o silabario.
- 2La habilidad de comunicarse utilizando palabras.
- 3Sistema no verbal de comunicación.
- 4Manera general o particular de expresarse.
- 5Vocabulario utilizado en una actividad o profesión específica.
- 6El conjunto particular de palabras utilizadas en un discurso o en un texto.
- 7Sistema de comunicación utilizado para instruir a una computadora a realizar tareas específicas.
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: elnguaje,legnuaje,lengauje,lengguaje,lenguaej,lenguajje,lengujae,lennguaje,lenugaje,llenguaje,lneguaje
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lenguaje
Misspelling Variants of "lenguaje"
Frequency rank: #1,551 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter L in our Spanish index: