lino
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,638
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lino is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Linum spp.) Género de plantas herbáceas nativas de la India, cultivadas desde la Antigüedad por sus varias propiedades; se utiliza su fibra para hilandería, y su semilla, llamada linaza, para prod... Pronounced [ˈlino]. Often confused with lo and lio.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lino |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlino] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #14,638 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for lino is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlino]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,638 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for lino, with forms such as "ilno", "linno", and "llino". 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, "lo", "lio", "lis", 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 lino, spelled L-I-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Linum spp.) Género de plantas herbáceas nativas de la India, cultivadas desde la Antigüedad por sus varias propiedades; se utiliza su fibra para hilandería, y su semilla, llamada linaza, para producir harina y aceite. Son hierbas de pequeño tamaño, hasta 70 cm, con el tallo recto, hueco y cilíndrico, las hojas angostas y puntiagudas, de color verde muy brillante, y flores terminales de color azul claro. De las numerosas especies la de más valor comercial es L. usitatissimum.
- 2Fibra hilable obtenida de esta planta.
- 3Tela hilada a partir de la fibra de esta planta, muy flexible, ligera y suave al tacto.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ilno,linno,llino,lnio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lino
Misspelling Variants of "lino"
Frequency rank: #14,638 in Spanish
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