luz
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#469
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
luz is aSpanishnoun. It means: Radiación electromagnética visible al ojo humano. Pronounced [ˈlus]. It ranks #469 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with lx and lxs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | luz |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlus] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #469 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for luz is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlus]. Corpus data places it at rank #469 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for luz in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lx", "lxs", "luzca", 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 luz, spelled L-U-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Radiación electromagnética visible al ojo humano.
- 2Fuente que emite, transmite o deja pasar una radiación tal.
- 3Corriente eléctrica que se suministra a domicilio en las áreas urbanas.
- 4Persona o cosa que alcanza fama y notoriedad en su carrera.
- 5Claridad que la luz₁ del sol provoca.
- 6Sección interior de un cilindro.
- 7Distancia, en proyección horizontal, existente entre las columnas que sostienen una viga o un arco.
- 8Por extensión, espacio libre que queda en otras estructuras análogas a las columnas como por ejemplo el orificio de la matriz para embutir chapas en donde cabe el punzón.
- 9Radiación electromagnética, sea cual sea su ancho de banda.
- 10Punto de una imagen pictórica del que parece emanar la claridad que la alumbra.
- 11Bien que se usa para el pago de otros bienes y servicios y como unidad de medida de la riqueza.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #469 in Spanish
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