sílaba

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for sílaba is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsilaβ̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #27,792 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Unidad fonológica que consta de uno o más sonidos pronunciados con un solo golpe de voz (o espiración) y agrupados alrededor del más sonoro, que comúnmente es una vocal.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for sílaba, with forms such as "slíaba", "ssílaba", and "síalba". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "silla", "Silva", "Silas", 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 sílaba, spelled S-Í-L-A-B-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.