lift
/lɪft/
The verdict
“lift” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #67,886 among 17,327 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,886
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 17,327
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Subir, elevarse, alzar, levantar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-lift · lift · Spanish
lift · rank #67,886 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,886
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 17,327
- PHOTO-FINISH lindes
Nearest frequency peer: lindes (+2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “lift”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- legibles
legibles
32,120 corpus weight
- lempira
lempira
32,119 corpus weight
- levita
levita
32,118 corpus weight
- lift
lift
32,115 corpus weight
- lindes
lindes
32,113 corpus weight
- llamabas
llamabas
32,110 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “lift” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lift |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /lɪft/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,886 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lift” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
lift is uncommon Spanish at frequency #67,886 among 17,327 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /lɪft/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Subir, elevarse, alzar, levantar.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for lift in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is lift, spelled L-I-F-T.
Definition
- 1Subir, elevarse, alzar, levantar.
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.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.