Lucía

/[luˈsia]/ name

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,405

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

Lucía is aSpanishname. It means: Nombre de pila de mujer. Pronounced [luˈsia]. It ranks #5,405 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with lui and luis.

Key facts for Lucía
PropertyValue
HeadwordLucía
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechName
IPA[luˈsia]
Letters5
Frequency rank#5,405
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for Lucía is 5 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [luˈsia]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,405 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nombre de pila de mujer.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for Lucía, with forms such as "lcuía", "llucía", and "lucaí". 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, "lui", "luis", "Luna", 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 Lucía, spelled L-U-C-Í-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nombre de pila de mujer.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: lcuía,llucía,lucaí,luccía,luíca,ulcía

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Lucía

Misspelling Variants of "Lucía"

lcuía5llucía6lucaí5luccía6luíca5ulcía5
Misspelling Variants of "Lucía"

Frequency rank: #5,405 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Lucía"?
"Lucía" is spelled L-U-C-Í-A. The IPA pronunciation is [luˈsia].
What does "Lucía" mean?
As a name, "Lucía" means: Nombre de pila de mujer.
What words are commonly confused with "Lucía"?
"Lucía" is commonly confused with "lui", "luis", "Luna". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Lucía"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Lucía" is [luˈsia]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Lucía" come from?
"Lucía" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.