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cuerda

noun

cuerda is spelled C-U-E-R-D-A: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 83 million words in written English, the 290,185th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cuerda means “A unit of land area equivalent to 3,929 square meters” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cuerda is cuerdas.

How many letters and syllables are in cuerda?

Letters6: C-U-E-R-D-A
In writingabout once in every 83 million words; the 290,185th 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 cuerda?

Cuerda appears about once in every 83 million words in written English, the 290,185th 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 cuerda

  • cuerdas plural

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

What does cuerda mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A unit of land area equivalent to 3,929 square meters.

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

Cuerda in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense unit of measurement:

LanguageWords
Spanishcuerda

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does cuerda come from?

Borrowed from Spanish cuerda. Doublet of chord and cord.

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

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