ll
[ˈl]
The verdict
“ll” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,141) as a character. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,141
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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 elle...
Corpus desk
Index ES-ll · ll · Spanish
ll · rank #15,141 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,141
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH ligados
Nearest frequency peer: ligados (-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 “ll”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- laptop
laptop
84,864 corpus weight
- last
last
84,863 corpus weight
- legítimos
legítimos
84,862 corpus weight
- ligados
ligados
84,861 corpus weight
- ll
ll
84,860 corpus weight
- localizada
localizada
84,857 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ll” 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 | ll |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Character |
| IPA | [ˈl] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #15,141 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ll”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ll is neighbouring look-alikes ("lo", "Lu", …), not just typos; it is acharacter pronounced [ˈl]. Frequency #15,141 among 2,069 “L” headwords. Gloss: "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 elle...".
Zero misspellings are on record for ll in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lo", "Lu", "lx", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is ll, spelled L-L.
Definition
- 1Dígrafo 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.
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.