li
/ˈli/
The verdict
“li” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,528) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,528
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Él.
Corpus desk
Index ES-li · li · Spanish
li · rank #5,528 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,528
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH lamentable
Nearest frequency peer: lamentable (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “li”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- japoneses
japoneses
94,478 corpus weight
- laguna
laguna
94,475 corpus weight
- lamentable
lamentable
94,474 corpus weight
- li
li
94,473 corpus weight
- llamaron
llamaron
94,472 corpus weight
- marcar
marcar
94,469 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “li” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | li |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈli/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #5,528 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “li”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for li is neighbouring look-alikes ("lo", "Lu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈli/. Frequency #5,528 among 2,069 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Él.".
Zero misspellings are on record for li in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lo", "Lu", "ll", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is li, spelled L-I.
Definition
- 1Él.
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.