regala

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for regala is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [reˈɣ̞ala]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,444 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tablón o tabloncillo que cubre las cabezas o extremos de los reveses de las ligazones y forma la parte superior de la borda, con la que a veces se equivoca como equivalente.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for regala, with forms such as "ergala", "reagla", and "regaal". 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, "Regla", "renal", "regar", 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 regala, spelled R-E-G-A-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.