liga
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,777
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
liga is aSpanishnoun. It means: Tira, banda o cinta de tela, generalmente elástica, que se lleva para sujetar los calcetines o las medias al muslo o a la pantorrilla. Pronounced [ˈliɣ̞a]. It ranks #1,777 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with lin and Loa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | liga |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈliɣ̞a] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,777 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for liga is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈliɣ̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,777 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for liga, with forms such as "ilga", "lgia", and "liag". 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, "lin", "Loa", "lio", 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 liga, spelled L-I-G-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tira, banda o cinta de tela, generalmente elástica, que se lleva para sujetar los calcetines o las medias al muslo o a la pantorrilla.
- 2Tira o cinta de tela o tejido con que se rodea el cuerpo con fines terapéuticos (como ligar un miembro o una herida) o estéticos (como delinear la silueta).
- 3Acción o efecto de unir o mezclar.
- 4Acción o efecto de ligar, en el sentido de alear metales mediante la fusión.
- 5Organización o agrupación de personas o entidades que comparten un interés o fin común, generalmente asociado con ciertos campos de actividad humana tales como los deportes, la artesanía, etc.
- 6Alianza entre gobiernos o países para la defensa de intereses comunes de tipo militar o político.
- 7Forma de competición en la que todos los individuos o equipos participantes se enfrenta con todos los demás.
- 8Porción o cantidad de cobre que se añade a la mezcla con otros metales en la fabricación de monedas o joyas.
- 9Mezcla de diferentes variaciones de tabaco, provenientes de áreas o plantaciones diversas, para obtener cierta calidad o sabor.
- 10Referencia cruzada en un documento informático que puede activarse para acceder al documento referido.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ilga,lgia,liag,ligga,lliga
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for liga
Misspelling Variants of "liga"
Frequency rank: #1,777 in Spanish
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