barra
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,898
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
barra is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pieza larga de metal u otra materia, por lo general de forma cilíndrica o prismática. Pronounced [ˈbara]. It ranks #3,898 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with bra and basa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barra |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbara] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,898 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for barra is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbara]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,898 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 18 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for barra, with forms such as "abrra", "barar", and "bbarra". 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, "bra", "basa", "Bart", 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 barra, spelled B-A-R-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pieza larga de metal u otra materia, por lo general de forma cilíndrica o prismática.
- 2Lingote de oro o plata.
- 3Pan más largo que ancho.
- 4Aparato que consta de dos maderos o tubos (barras) paralelos, horizontales de altura regulable.
- 5Travesaños de madera fijos en diversos aparatos de gimnasia que sirven de espaldar, peldaño, pasamanos u otra forma de apoyo.
- 6Mostrador en una tienda de expendio de bebidas alcohólicas, frente al cual se sienta el cliente a beber.
- 7En la desembocadura de un río, acumulación de arena o lodo que estorba la navegación.
- 8Cresta formada por los flancos de los pliegues de altura similar.
- 9Signo de notación en forma de línea vertical que atraviesa las líneas del pentagrama y que indica el fin de un compás.
- 10Barrabrava.
- 11Signo gráfico oblicuo: /. Se utiliza para separa el dividendo del divisor.
- 12Signo gráfico oblicuo: /. Se usa como elemento para escribir rutas a archivos o urls.
- 13Pieza en forma de tira o cinta colocada en el escudo desde la parte inferior diestra del mismo hasta la superior siniestra.
- 14Signo gráfico vertical: |.
- 15Línea vertical impresa con diferentes fines, por ejemplo para ser utilizada en los códigos de barras.
- 16Línea manuscrita recta, sobre una palabra, utilizada para anular, marcar o señalar el texto.
- 17la veinticuatroava (1/24) parte de una concesión minera.
- 18Cada una de las estrofas de una canción o improvisación de rap.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abrra,barar,bbarra,brara,varra
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for barra
Misspelling Variants of "barra"
Frequency rank: #3,898 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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