Llorona
[ʝoˈɾona]
The verdict
“Llorona” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #33,205. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,205
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En la mitología de varias culturas hispanoamericanas, es el alma en pena de una mujer que ahogó a sus hijos, y que luego, arrepentida y maldecida, los busca por las noches por ríos, pueblos y ciuda...
Corpus desk
Index ES-llorona · Llorona · Spanish
Llorona · rank #33,205 · 8 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,205
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH llavero
Nearest frequency peer: llavero (-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 “Llorona”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- librito
librito
66,800 corpus weight
- llamativos
llamativos
66,798 corpus weight
- llavero
llavero
66,797 corpus weight
- Llorona
Llorona
66,796 corpus weight
- locución
locución
66,794 corpus weight
- logremos
logremos
66,793 corpus weight
What this shows “Llorona” 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 | Llorona |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ʝoˈɾona] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,205 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Llorona”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Llorona (IPA [ʝoˈɾona]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #33,205 among 2,069 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "En la mitología de varias culturas hispanoamericanas, es el alma en pena de una mujer que ahogó a sus hijos, y que luego, arrepentida y maldecida, los busca por las noches por ríos, pueblos y ciuda...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Llorona, with forms such as "lloorna", "llornoa", and "lloroan". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Lorena", "llorones", "lloro", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is Llorona, spelled L-L-O-R-O-N-A.
Definition
- 1En la mitología de varias culturas hispanoamericanas, es el alma en pena de una mujer que ahogó a sus hijos, y que luego, arrepentida y maldecida, los busca por las noches por ríos, pueblos y ciudades, asustando con su sobrecogedor llanto a quienes la ven u oyen.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Llorona appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
¿Eschuchaste que ayer un vecino captó el llanto de la Llorona? […] Sí; por eso nuestros hijos no deben estar fuera a altas horas de la noche.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lloorna
- llornoa
- lloroan
- lloronna
- llorrona
- llroona
- lolrona
- lorona
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Llorona - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).