llegar
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#341
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
llegar is aSpanishverb. It means: Acción de terminar un viaje o movimiento porque se ha alcanzado el destino. Pronounced [ʝeˈɣ̞aɾ]. It ranks #341 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with lugar and llegó.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | llegar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʝeˈɣ̞aɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #341 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for llegar is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʝeˈɣ̞aɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #341 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for llegar, with forms such as "legar", "lelgar", and "lleagr". 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, "lugar", "llegó", "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 llegar, spelled L-L-E-G-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción de terminar un viaje o movimiento porque se ha alcanzado el destino.
- 2Durar hasta época o tiempo determinado.
- 3Venir por su orden a tocar por su turno una cosa o acción a uno.
- 4Conseguir el fin al que se aspira.
- 5Suceder, comenzar a correr un cierto y determinado tiempo, o venir a ser el tiempo de ser o hacerse una cosa.
- 6Ascender, subir.
- 7Cumplir, ser suficiente.
- 8Junto con algunos verbos tiene la significación del verbo a que se junta.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: legar,lelgar,lleagr,llegarr,lleggar,llegra,llgear
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for llegar
Misspelling Variants of "llegar"
Frequency rank: #341 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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