Lisa
[ˈlisa]
The verdict
“Lisa” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,750) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,750
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nombre de pila de mujer.
Corpus desk
Index ES-lisa · Lisa · Spanish
Lisa · rank #5,750 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,750
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH manteniendo
Nearest frequency peer: manteniendo (+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 “Lisa”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- lamento
lamento
94,255 corpus weight
- libertades
libertades
94,254 corpus weight
- like
like
94,253 corpus weight
- Lisa
Lisa
94,251 corpus weight
- manteniendo
manteniendo
94,250 corpus weight
- masculino
masculino
94,248 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “Lisa” 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 | Lisa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈlisa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,750 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “Lisa”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Lisa is neighbouring look-alikes ("los", "Loa", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [ˈlisa]. Frequency #5,750 among 2,069 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Nombre de pila de mujer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lisa, with forms such as "lias", "lissa", and "llisa". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "los", "Loa", "lit", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is Lisa, spelled L-I-S-A.
Definition
- 1Nombre de pila de mujer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lias
- lissa
- llisa
- lsia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lisa - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Lisa", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).