levadura
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,733
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
levadura is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cualquiera de centenares de especies de hongos microscópicos, habitualmente unicelulares, que se reproducen por gemación y son capaces de descomponer los glúcidos en un proceso llamado fermentación Pronounced [leβ̞aˈð̞uɾa]. Often confused with ligadura and levaduras.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | levadura |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [leβ̞aˈð̞uɾa] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for levadura is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [leβ̞aˈð̞uɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #21,733 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for levadura, with forms such as "elvadura", "leavdura", and "lebadura". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "ligadura", "levaduras", "lavadora", 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 levadura, spelled L-E-V-A-D-U-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cualquiera de centenares de especies de hongos microscópicos, habitualmente unicelulares, que se reproducen por gemación y son capaces de descomponer los glúcidos en un proceso llamado fermentación
- 2En especial, los que se emplean frescos, secos o congelados en gastronomía para el leudado del pan y la elaboración de cerveza y vino
- 3Resto de un madero aserrado a medida
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: elvadura,leavdura,lebadura,levaddura,levadrua,levaduar,levadurra,levaudra,levdaura,levvadura,llevadura,lveadura
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for levadura
Misspelling Variants of "levadura"
Frequency rank: #21,733 in Spanish
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