llorar
[ʝoˈɾaɾ]
The verdict
“llorar” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #2,617. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,617
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Derramar lágrimas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-llorar · llorar · Spanish
llorar · rank #2,617 · 7 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,617
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH listas
Nearest frequency peer: listas (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “llorar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- leído
leído
97,386 corpus weight
- listas
listas
97,385 corpus weight
- llorar
llorar
97,384 corpus weight
- mata
mata
97,383 corpus weight
- meta
meta
97,382 corpus weight
- Morales
Morales
97,381 corpus weight
What this shows “llorar” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | llorar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʝoˈɾaɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,617 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “llorar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around llorar (IPA [ʝoˈɾaɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #2,617 among 2,069 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Derramar lágrimas.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for llorar, with forms such as "lloarr", "llorarr", and "llorra". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "lloro", "Llosa", "lloré", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is llorar, spelled L-L-O-R-A-R.
Definition
- 1Derramar lágrimas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how llorar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«Tomemos un ejemplo concreto. Un niño está jugando sólo en la habitación de su casa, en un día tormentoso. Repentinamente, junto con descargas de rayos se produce un corte en la energía eléctrica y queda a oscuras. Esta situación le produce pavor, miedo, y empieza a llorar reclamando a su madre u otra persona. Cuanto más demore en llegar alguien a su lado…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lloarr
- llorarr
- llorra
- llorrar
- llroar
- lolrar
- lorar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of llorar - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "llorar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).