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cuarta

noun

cuarta is spelled C-U-A-R-T-A: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cuarta means “A traditional Galician unit of dry measure, a quarter-ferrado equivalent to about 3–4.5 L depending on the substance measured” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cuarta is cuartas.

How many letters and syllables are in cuarta?

Letters6: C-U-A-R-T-A
In writingabout once in every 98 million words; the 317,168th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is cuarta?

Cuarta appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of cuarta

  • cuartas plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does cuarta mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A traditional Galician unit of dry measure, a quarter-ferrado equivalent to about 3–4.5 L depending on the substance measured.

  2. 2

    Synonym of palmo, quarter-vara, a traditional Spanish unit of length

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does cuarta come from?

Borrowed from Spanish cuarta (“fourth”). Doublet of quart, quarter, and cuarto, &c.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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