ley
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#204
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ley is aSpanishnoun. It means: Disposición, regla o precepto dictado por la máxima autoridad. Pronounced [ˈlej]. It ranks #204 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with lo and li.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ley |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlej] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #204 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ley is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlej]. Corpus data places it at rank #204 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ley in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lo", "li", "Lu", 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 ley, spelled L-E-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Disposición, regla o precepto dictado por la máxima autoridad.
- 2Conjunto de leyes que se refieren a una materia.
- 3Conjunto de normas que rigen la sociedad.
- 4Relación entre los elementos de un fenómeno físico.
- 5Regla constante y natural que rige un fenómeno físico.
- 6Norma moral que debe cumplirse en la sociedad.
- 7Norma dictada por el poder.
- 8Conducta dictada por una religión, o la religión misma.
- 9Normas que rigen solo en un ámbito determinado.
- 10Proporción en que un metal noble entra en las aleaciones, expresado en milésimas.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #204 in Spanish
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