arteria
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,287
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
arteria is aSpanishnoun. It means: Vaso sanguíneo mayor que lleva la sangre que sale del corazón hacia los alvéolos pulmonares y hacia las extremidades y resto del cuerpo Pronounced [aɾˈt̪eɾja]. Often confused with avería and aterra.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arteria |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aɾˈt̪eɾja] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,287 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for arteria is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aɾˈt̪eɾja]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,287 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for arteria, with forms such as "aretria", "arrteria", and "arteira". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "avería", "aterra", "autoría", 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 arteria, spelled A-R-T-E-R-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vaso sanguíneo mayor que lleva la sangre que sale del corazón hacia los alvéolos pulmonares y hacia las extremidades y resto del cuerpo
- 2Por extensión, calle o avenida de mucho tráfico.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aretria,arrteria,arteira,arterai,arterria,artreia,artteria,atreria,rateria
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for arteria
Misspelling Variants of "arteria"
Frequency rank: #14,287 in Spanish
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