leva
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#40,930
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
leva is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción y efecto de levar anclas. Pronounced [ˈleβ̞a]. Often confused with ley and Loa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leva |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈleβ̞a] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #40,930 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for leva is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈleβ̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #40,930 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for leva, with forms such as "leav", "levva", and "lleva". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ley", "Loa", "lex", 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 leva, spelled L-E-V-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción y efecto de levar anclas.
- 2Reclutamiento, a menudo forzoso, de gente para un servicio militar o la guerra.
- 3Grupo de perros machos que siguen a todas partes una perra en celo.
- 4En una rueda hidráulica, cada uno de los dientes que levantan y dejan caer los mazos o piezas que golpean.
- 5Pieza que transforma el movimiento rectilíneo alternativo en circular continuo al girar en torno de un eje que no está en su centro geométrico.
- 6Palanca de madera.
- 7Acción para burlar, engañar o perjudicar a una persona.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: leav,levva,lleva,lvea
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for leva
Misspelling Variants of "leva"
Frequency rank: #40,930 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter L in our Spanish index: