abra
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,943
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
abra is aSpanishnoun. It means: Entrada de mar en tierra, de menor proporción que una bahía, que ofrece resguardo para que los buques puedan fondear en ella. Pronounced [ˈaβ̞ɾa]. It ranks #7,943 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Ana and art.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abra |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaβ̞ɾa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,943 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for abra is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaβ̞ɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,943 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 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 abra, with forms such as "abar", "abbra", and "arba". 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, "Ana", "art", "ama", 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 abra, spelled A-B-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Entrada de mar en tierra, de menor proporción que una bahía, que ofrece resguardo para que los buques puedan fondear en ella.
- 2Zona apta para el cruce de una cordillera entre las montañas.
- 3Espacio de terreno desprovisto de árboles en medio de un bosque o selva.
- 4Espacio de terreno en el monte que está desprovisto de maleza y permite transitar por él.
- 5Hendidura que los sismos han provocado en el suelo.
- 6Parte de una puerta o ventana, que se cierra y abre, cubriendo o destapando el espacio correspondiente.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abar,abbra,arba,avra
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for abra
Misspelling Variants of "abra"
Frequency rank: #7,943 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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