-ly
Letters
3 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
-ly is aSpanishsuffix. It means: Sufijo con el que se forman adjetivos a partir de un sustantivo, los adjetivos tienen el sentido de "comportarse como, o tener una naturaleza típica de lo que es denotado por el sustantivo". Pronounced /liː/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | -ly |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Suffix |
| IPA | /liː/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for -ly is 3 letters long, classified as asuffix, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /liː/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for -ly in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 -ly, spelled --L-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sufijo con el que se forman adjetivos a partir de un sustantivo, los adjetivos tienen el sentido de "comportarse como, o tener una naturaleza típica de lo que es denotado por el sustantivo".
- 2Sufijo con el que se forman adjetivos a partir de un sustantivo, los adjetivos tienen el sentido de "apareciendo como, pareciendo, o teniendo la semejanza de lo que es denotado por el sustantivo".
- 3Sufijo con el que se forman adjetivos a partir de un sustantivo especificando intervalos de tiempo, los adjetivos tienen el sentido de "ocurriendo en tales intervalos".
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Nearby Spanish words
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