let us
The verdict
“let us” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 6
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Usado de otra forma que figurativamente o idiomáticamente: Ver let, us.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | let us |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈlɛt.ʌs/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “let us” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for let us is 6 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈlɛt.ʌs/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for let us in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 let us, spelled L-E-T- -U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Usado de otra forma que figurativamente o idiomáticamente: Ver let, us.
- 2Forma alternativa de let's.
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Using “let us”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is L-E-T- -U-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈlɛt.ʌs/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Nearby Spanish words
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