ligadura
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#49,114
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
ligadura is aSpanishnoun. It means: Unión de dos o más objetos usando una liga, venda o atadura para ceñir, sujetar o impedir el movimiento. Pronounced [liɣ̞aˈð̞uɾa]. Often confused with ligada and levadura.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ligadura |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [liɣ̞aˈð̞uɾa] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #49,114 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ligadura is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [liɣ̞aˈð̞uɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #49,114 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for ligadura, with forms such as "ilgadura", "lgiadura", and "liagdura". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "ligada", "levadura", 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 ligadura, spelled L-I-G-A-D-U-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Unión de dos o más objetos usando una liga, venda o atadura para ceñir, sujetar o impedir el movimiento.
- 2Símbolo de dos o más letras en el mismo glifo. Por ejemplo, en alemán ß.
- 3Línea curva que se emplea en las partituras para indicar el ligado o conexión de sonidos, ya sea en una frase musical, un legato, o en la prolongación de una nota.
- 4Intervención quirúrgica para unir con hilo de sutura los extremos o aberturas de un conducto, vaso u órgano hueco.
- 5Tela o venda usada para una compresión o un torniquete apretándola con un palo o garrote.
- 6Maleficio contra alguien, en especial para afectar su capacidad sexual o reproductiva.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ilgadura,lgiadura,liagdura,ligaddura,ligadrua,ligaduar,ligadurra,ligaudra,ligdaura,liggadura,lligadura
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ligadura
Misspelling Variants of "ligadura"
Frequency rank: #49,114 in Spanish
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