leona
[leˈona]
The verdict
“leona” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #14,391. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,391
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del femenino singular de león.
Corpus desk
Index ES-leona · leona · Spanish
leona · rank #14,391 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,391
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH lastimar
Nearest frequency peer: lastimar (-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 “leona”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Jonas
Jonas
85,613 corpus weight
- jura
jura
85,612 corpus weight
- lastimar
lastimar
85,611 corpus weight
- leona
leona
85,610 corpus weight
- limpiando
limpiando
85,609 corpus weight
- Lorena
Lorena
85,607 corpus weight
What this shows “leona” 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 | leona |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [leˈona] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,391 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “leona”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around leona (IPA [leˈona]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,391 among 2,069 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Forma del femenino singular de león.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for leona, with forms such as "elona", "lenoa", and "leoan". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Loa", "Luna", "loca", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is leona, spelled L-E-O-N-A.
Definition
- 1Forma del femenino singular de león.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elona
- lenoa
- leoan
- leonna
- lleona
- loena
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of leona - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).