lira
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,054
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lira is aSpanishnoun. It means: Instrumento musical de cuerda utilizado en la Antigüedad, formado por varias cuerdas tensadas en un marco cuya vibración amplifica el sonido de las mismas. Pronounced [ˈliɾa]. Often confused with Loa and lis.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lira |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈliɾa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #21,054 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for lira is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈliɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #21,054 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 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 lira, with forms such as "ilra", "lirra", and "llira". 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, "Loa", "lis", "lit", 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 lira, spelled L-I-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrumento musical de cuerda utilizado en la Antigüedad, formado por varias cuerdas tensadas en un marco cuya vibración amplifica el sonido de las mismas.
- 2Por extensión, la poesía lírica en general, y la inspiración necesaria para ésta.
- 3Forma poética con rima ABABB y métrica 7-11-7-7-11
- 4Forma poética con estrofas de seis versos de métrica variable y rima ABABCC
- 5Antigua unidad monetaria de Israel, sustituída por el nuevo séquel
- 6Unidad monetaria de Italia, sustituída por el euro desde el 2002
- 7Unidad monetaria de Malta, sustituída por el euro desde el 2008
- 8Unidad monetaria de Turquía, sustituída por la nueva lira turca
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ilra,lirra,llira,lria
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lira
Misspelling Variants of "lira"
Frequency rank: #21,054 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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