talla

/[ˈt̪aʝa]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,896

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

4

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

talla is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de tallar. Pronounced [ˈt̪aʝa]. It ranks #5,896 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with tasa and tela.

Key facts for talla
PropertyValue
Headwordtalla
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈt̪aʝa]
Letters5
Frequency rank#5,896
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of talla in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for talla is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪aʝa]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,896 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for talla, with forms such as "atlla", "talal", and "tlala". 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, "tasa", "tela", "tapa", 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 talla, spelled T-A-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Acción o efecto de tallar.
  2. 2
    Estatura de una persona.
  3. 3
    Altura figurada (por su calidad) que alcanza una persona o cosa.
  4. 4
    Dimensión o tamaño de una prenda de vestir.
  5. 5
    Instrumento usado para medir la estatura de una persona.
  6. 6
    Suma de dinero que se ofrece por encontrar el paradero de una persona.
  7. 7
    Cantidad de monedas que se produce por unidad de peso del metal acuñado.
  8. 8
    En algunos juegos de naipes, cada una de las rondas que se juegan.
  9. 9
    Antiguo tributo que se cobraba en Aragón.
  10. 10
    Procedimiento quirúrgico específicamente con el fin de extraer los cálculos de la vejiga.
  11. 11
    Palo de madera en el que se van haciendo muescas con el fin de ir registrando las deudas saldadas.
  12. 12
    Elemento transversal a las vías del tren que las mantienen unidas.
  13. 13
    Parte del henequén de la que se extrae fibra.
  14. 14
    Helado que viene con el palito de madera.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: atlla,talal,tlala,ttalla

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for talla

Misspelling Variants of "talla"

atlla5talal5tlala5ttalla6
Misspelling Variants of "talla"

Frequency rank: #5,896 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "talla"?
"talla" is spelled T-A-L-L-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈt̪aʝa].
What does "talla" mean?
As a noun, "talla" means: Acción o efecto de tallar.
What words are commonly confused with "talla"?
"talla" is commonly confused with "tasa", "tela", "tapa". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "talla"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "talla" is [ˈt̪aʝa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "talla" come from?
"talla" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.