lienzo
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,186
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
lienzo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Tipo de tela de fibra natural, de trama simple y extremadamente resistente, que pueda ser también empleada como soporte para pintura Pronounced [ˈljẽnso]. Often confused with lino and lleno.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lienzo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈljẽnso] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,186 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for lienzo is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈljẽnso]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,186 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for lienzo, with forms such as "ilenzo", "leinzo", and "liennzo". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "lino", "lleno", "lindo", 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 lienzo, spelled L-I-E-N-Z-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tipo de tela de fibra natural, de trama simple y extremadamente resistente, que pueda ser también empleada como soporte para pintura
- 2Más generalmente, cualquier tela empleada como soporte pictórico
- 3Por extensión, obra pictórica sobre un soporte tal
- 4Tramo recto de muralla o fachada
- 5Pañuelo de este material que sirve para limpiar las narices y el sudor
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ilenzo,leinzo,liennzo,lienoz,lienzzo,liezno,linezo,llienzo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lienzo
Misspelling Variants of "lienzo"
Frequency rank: #12,186 in Spanish
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