barra brava
The verdict
“barra brava” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Grupo organizado de fanáticos dentro de una hinchada de fútbol, encargado de alentar o amedrentar durante los partidos a los jugadores mediante el despliegue de banderas, la entonación de cánticos ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barra brava |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈbara ˈβ̞ɾaβ̞a] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “barra brava” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for barra brava is 11 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbara ˈβ̞ɾaβ̞a]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Grupo organizado de fanáticos dentro de una hinchada de fútbol, encargado de alentar o amedrentar durante los partidos a los jugadores mediante el despliegue de banderas, la entonación de cánticos ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for barra brava in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 brava, spelled B-A-R-R-A- -B-R-A-V-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Grupo organizado de fanáticos dentro de una hinchada de fútbol, encargado de alentar o amedrentar durante los partidos a los jugadores mediante el despliegue de banderas, la entonación de cánticos y, ocasionalmente, el ataque a los simpatizantes de los clubes rivales, además de defenderse y defender al resto de la propia afición de posibles ataques de hinchadas rivales o de la represión policial.
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Using “barra brava”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-A-R-R-A- -B-R-A-V-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈbara ˈβ̞ɾaβ̞a] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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