lin
[lɛ̃]
The verdict
“lin” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,734) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,734
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lino.
Corpus desk
Index ES-lin · lin · Spanish
lin · rank #13,734 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,734
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH Leandro
Nearest frequency peer: Leandro (-1 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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “lin”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Kiev
Kiev
86,271 corpus weight
- lance
lance
86,269 corpus weight
- Leandro
Leandro
86,268 corpus weight
- lin
lin
86,267 corpus weight
- lloran
lloran
86,265 corpus weight
- low
low
86,264 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “lin” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lin |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [lɛ̃] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #13,734 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “lin”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lin is neighbouring look-alikes ("lo", "Lu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [lɛ̃]. Frequency #13,734 among 2,069 “L” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lin, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lo", "Lu", "ll", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is lin, spelled L-I-N.
Definition
- 1Lino.
- 2Lino.
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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