libre
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#468
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
libre is anSpanishadj. It means: Que puede obrar o decidir según su propia voluntad. Pronounced [ˈliβ̞ɾe]. It ranks #468 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with lie and like.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | libre |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈliβ̞ɾe] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #468 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for libre is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈliβ̞ɾe]. Corpus data places it at rank #468 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for libre, with forms such as "ilbre", "lbire", and "libbre". 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, "lie", "like", "live", 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 libre, spelled L-I-B-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que puede obrar o decidir según su propia voluntad.
- 2Que no está encerrado, ni cautivo, ni sometido a otro.
- 3Que no está ocupado o siendo usado.
- 4Que carece de restricciones y limitaciones.
- 5Que se excede en su comportamiento, que no pone freno a su conducta.
- 6Referido al tiempo, el que no se ocupa trabajando.
- 7Dicho de un objeto, que no está atado ni sujeto.
- 8Dicho de una edificación, aislado, separado del resto.
- 9Dicho de un lugar, desembarazado, sin obstáculos.
- 10Que no se sujeta a normas o estilos preestablecidos.
- 11Hablando de traducciones, que no corresponde fielmente al original.
- 12Que no se ha casado ni tiene pareja (novio o novia).
- 13Competencia en la que el estilo lo escoge el participante.
- 14Dicho de algo relacionado con el cuerpo, que no tiene impedimento u obstáculo.
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ilbre,lbire,libbre,librre,lirbe,llibre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for libre
Misspelling Variants of "libre"
Frequency rank: #468 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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