llegada

/[ʝeˈɣ̞að̞a]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,864

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

llegada is aSpanishnoun. It means: El arribo de alguno a parte o sitio determinado. Pronounced [ʝeˈɣ̞að̞a]. It ranks #1,864 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with llegar and llegan.

Key facts for llegada
PropertyValue
Headwordllegada
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ʝeˈɣ̞að̞a]
Letters7
Frequency rank#1,864
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of llegada in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for llegada is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʝeˈɣ̞að̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,864 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "El arribo de alguno a parte o sitio determinado.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for llegada, with forms such as "legada", "lelgada", and "lleagda". 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, "llegar", "llegan", "llegado", 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 llegada, spelled L-L-E-G-A-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    El arribo de alguno a parte o sitio determinado.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: legada,lelgada,lleagda,llegaad,llegadda,llegdaa,lleggada,llgeada

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for llegada

Misspelling Variants of "llegada"

legada6lelgada7lleagda7llegaad7llegadda8llegdaa7lleggada8llgeada7
Misspelling Variants of "llegada"

Frequency rank: #1,864 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "llegada"?
"llegada" is spelled L-L-E-G-A-D-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ʝeˈɣ̞að̞a].
What does "llegada" mean?
As a noun, "llegada" means: El arribo de alguno a parte o sitio determinado.
What words are commonly confused with "llegada"?
"llegada" is commonly confused with "llegar", "llegan", "llegado". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "llegada"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "llegada" is [ʝeˈɣ̞að̞a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "llegada" come from?
"llegada" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Other entries that begin with the letter L in our Spanish index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.