lentes

/[ˈlẽn̪t̪es]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,557

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

19

similar word pairs

lentes is aSpanishnoun. It means: Instrumento óptico formado por un marco o armazón que soporta sendas lentes unidas por un arco que se apoya en la nariz, y dos patillas que ayudan a sostenerlas. Se usan para compensar defectos en ... Pronounced [ˈlẽn̪t̪es]. It ranks #6,557 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with leyes and lunes.

Key facts for lentes
PropertyValue
Headwordlentes
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈlẽn̪t̪es]
Letters6
Frequency rank#6,557
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs19
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for lentes is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlẽn̪t̪es]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,557 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Instrumento óptico formado por un marco o armazón que soporta sendas lentes unidas por un arco que se apoya en la nariz, y dos patillas que ayudan a sostenerlas. Se usan para compensar defectos en ...".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for lentes, with forms such as "elntes", "lenets", and "lenntes". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "leyes", "lunes", "lento", 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 lentes, spelled L-E-N-T-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Instrumento óptico formado por un marco o armazón que soporta sendas lentes unidas por un arco que se apoya en la nariz, y dos patillas que ayudan a sostenerlas. Se usan para compensar defectos en la visión, protección o simplemente por motivos estéticos.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: elntes,lenets,lenntes,lentess,lentse,lenttes,letnes,llentes,lnetes

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lentes

Misspelling Variants of "lentes"

elntes6lenets6lenntes7lentess7lentse6lenttes7letnes6llentes7
Misspelling Variants of "lentes"

Frequency rank: #6,557 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "lentes"?
"lentes" is spelled L-E-N-T-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈlẽn̪t̪es].
What does "lentes" mean?
As a noun, "lentes" means: Instrumento óptico formado por un marco o armazón que soporta sendas lentes unidas por un arco que se apoya en la nariz, y dos patillas que ayudan a sostenerlas. Se usan para compensar defectos en ...
What words are commonly confused with "lentes"?
"lentes" is commonly confused with "leyes", "lunes", "lento". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "lentes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "lentes" is [ˈlẽn̪t̪es]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "lentes" come from?
"lentes" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.