novela
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,687
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
novela is aSpanishnoun. It means: Obra literaria que consiste en una narración de ficción, extensa, más larga que el cuento o los relatos breves, y que cuenta con un argumento elaborado referido a personajes, hechos y pasiones del ... Pronounced [noˈβ̞ela]. It ranks #1,687 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with novia and Novoa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | novela |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [noˈβ̞ela] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for novela is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [noˈβ̞ela]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,687 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for novela, with forms such as "nnovela", "nobela", and "noevla". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "novia", "Novoa", "novena", 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 novela, spelled N-O-V-E-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Obra literaria que consiste en una narración de ficción, extensa, más larga que el cuento o los relatos breves, y que cuenta con un argumento elaborado referido a personajes, hechos y pasiones del alma.
- 2Género literario de las obras de este tipo.
- 3Conjunto de obras literarias de este género que tienen en común una característica como el autor, la época, el país, entre otras.
- 4Acontecimientos reales con un desarrollo extraordinario.
- 5Relato ficticio o engañoso.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nnovela,nobela,noevla,noveal,novella,novlea,novvela,nvoela,onvela
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for novela
Misspelling Variants of "novela"
Frequency rank: #1,687 in Spanish
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