letanía
[let̪aˈnia]
The verdict
“letanía” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #56,436 among 2,069 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,436
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rogativa, súplica que se hace a Dios con cierto orden, invocando a la Santísima Trinidad y poniendo por medianeros a Jesucristo, la Virgen y los santos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-letania · letanía · Spanish
letanía · rank #56,436 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,436
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH letrada
Nearest frequency peer: letrada (+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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “letanía”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- knights
knights
43,570 corpus weight
- letanía
letanía
43,565 corpus weight
- letrada
letrada
43,564 corpus weight
- leucocitos
leucocitos
43,563 corpus weight
- lideresa
lideresa
43,561 corpus weight
- liguero
liguero
43,560 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “letanía” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | letanía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [let̪aˈnia] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,436 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “letanía” en español
Rare enough to double-check
letanía is uncommon Spanish at frequency #56,436 among 2,069 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [let̪aˈnia]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for letanía in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is letanía, spelled L-E-T-A-N-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Rogativa, súplica que se hace a Dios con cierto orden, invocando a la Santísima Trinidad y poniendo por medianeros a Jesucristo, la Virgen y los santos.
- 2Procesión que se hace regularmente por una rogativa cantando las letanías.
- 3Lista, retahíla, enumeración seguida de muchos nombres, locuciones o frases.
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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