aura
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,285
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
aura is aSpanishnoun. It means: Viento suave y apacible. Pronounced [ˈawɾa]. Often confused with aya and aux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aura |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈawɾa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #15,285 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for aura is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈawɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #15,285 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 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 aura, with forms such as "arua", "auar", and "aurra". 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, "aya", "aux", "aus", 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 aura, spelled A-U-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Viento suave y apacible.
- 2Hipotético campo energético de radiación luminosa multicolor que rodea a las personas u objetos como un capullo o halo y que es invisible para la gran mayoría de los seres humanos.
- 3Favor, aplauso, aceptación general.
- 4(Cathartes aura) Ave rapaz diurna americana, carroñera, del tamaño de una gallina, con cabeza desprovista de plumas y de color rojizo, y plumaje negro.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: arua,auar,aurra,uara
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for aura
Misspelling Variants of "aura"
Frequency rank: #15,285 in Spanish
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