amarra
[aˈmara]
The verdict
“amarra” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #49,408) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #49,408
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Correa que va desde la muserola al pretal, y se pone a los caballos para que no levanten la cabeza.
Corpus desk
Index ES-amarra · amarra · Spanish
amarra · rank #49,408 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,408
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH alucinado
Nearest frequency peer: alucinado (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “amarra”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- almenas
almenas
50,596 corpus weight
- almeriense
almeriense
50,595 corpus weight
- alucinado
alucinado
50,594 corpus weight
- amarra
amarra
50,593 corpus weight
- amarrada
amarrada
50,592 corpus weight
- amarras
amarras
50,591 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “amarra” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amarra |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈmara] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #49,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “amarra”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for amarra is neighbouring look-alikes ("Amaya", "Amaru", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [aˈmara]. Frequency #49,408 among 7,704 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for amarra, with forms such as "aamrra", "ammarra", and "amrara". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Amaya", "Amaru", "ampara", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is amarra, spelled A-M-A-R-R-A.
Definition
- 1Correa que va desde la muserola al pretal, y se pone a los caballos para que no levanten la cabeza.
- 2Cabo o cable con que se asegura una embarcación en el puerto o paraje donde da fondo, ya sea con el ancla, o ya amarrada a tierra.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aamrra
- ammarra
- amrara
- maarra
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of amarra - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "amarra", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).