ll
Spanish, letter
ll is spelled L-L (2 letters) and appears 3.6 times per million words in written Spanish, the 15,026th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ll is a Spanish letter meaning “The fourteenth letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script; preceded by l and followed by m” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Ll is a different word: “The fourteenth letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin…”. With a capital, LL is a different word: “elle, the 14th letter of the Spanish alphabet, after L and before M”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Dígrafo que fue considerado -entre 1754 y 2010- como la decimocuarta letra del alfabeto español y su undécima…”.
What does ll mean in English?
letter
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The fourteenth letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script; preceded by l and followed by m.
letter
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The fourteenth letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script.
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A digraph of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script.
letter
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elle, the 14th letter of the Spanish alphabet, after L and before M
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
letter: 1. Dígrafo que fue considerado -entre 1754 y 2010- como la decimocuarta letra del alfabeto español y su undécima consonante, pero ya no lo es. Su nombre es femenino: la elle, doble ele, plural es elles. En la mayoría de los países hispánicos se pronuncia como y. Es indivisible en la escritura.
letter: 1. Dígrafo que fue considerado -entre 1754 y 2010- como la decimocuarta letra del alfabeto español y su undécima consonante, pero ya no lo es. Su nombre es femenino: la elle, doble ele, plural es elles. En la mayoría de los países hispánicos se pronuncia como y. Es indivisible en la escritura.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of ll
- Ll uppercase
- caps LL
- ll lowercase
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is ll in Spanish?
ll appears 3.6 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).