llama
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#611
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
llama is aSpanishnoun. It means: Luz emitida por los electrones excitados con la energía liberada en los procesos de combustión dentro de atmósferas ricas en oxígeno. Pronounced [ˈʝama]. It ranks #611 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with loma and llega.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | llama |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʝama] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #611 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for llama is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʝama]. Corpus data places it at rank #611 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 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 llama, with forms such as "lalma", "llaam", and "llamma". 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, "loma", "llega", "llena", 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 llama, spelled L-L-A-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Luz emitida por los electrones excitados con la energía liberada en los procesos de combustión dentro de atmósferas ricas en oxígeno.
- 2Intensidad de una emoción, pasión o deseo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lalma,llaam,llamma,llmaa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for llama
Misspelling Variants of "llama"
Frequency rank: #611 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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