ligamento
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,718
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
ligamento is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cordón de fibras de tejido conectivo, resistente y ligeramente elástico, que une entre sí dos huesos formando una articulación. Pronounced [liɣ̞aˈmẽn̪t̪o]. Often confused with ligamentos and lamento.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ligamento |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [liɣ̞aˈmẽn̪t̪o] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #29,718 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ligamento is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [liɣ̞aˈmẽn̪t̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #29,718 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for ligamento, with forms such as "ilgamento", "lgiamento", and "liagmento". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "ligamentos", "lamento", 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 ligamento, spelled L-I-G-A-M-E-N-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cordón de fibras de tejido conectivo, resistente y ligeramente elástico, que une entre sí dos huesos formando una articulación.
- 2Pliegue que muestra el peritoneo u otra membrana visceral.
- 3Vestigio tubular de un órgano presente en el desarrollo fetal y ausente en el adulto.
- 4Acción o efecto de ligar o ligarse.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ilgamento,lgiamento,liagmento,ligaemnto,ligamennto,ligamenot,ligamentto,ligametno,ligammento,ligamneto,liggamento,ligmaento,lligamento
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Misspelling Variants of "ligamento"
Frequency rank: #29,718 in Spanish
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