barrida

/[baˈrið̞a]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#52,101

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

barrida is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción y efecto de barrer. Pronounced [baˈrið̞a].

Key facts for barrida
PropertyValue
Headwordbarrida
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[baˈrið̞a]
Letters7
Frequency rank#52,101
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of barrida in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for barrida is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [baˈrið̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #52,101 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for barrida 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 barrida, spelled B-A-R-R-I-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Acción y efecto de barrer.
  2. 2
    Operación de las fuerzas policiales para detectar criminalidad en una zona o grupo, consistente en detener a personas en masa para determinar si tienen documentos de identificación y antecedentes criminales.
  3. 3
    Acción administrativa para reducir la nómina mediante el despido de empleados en grupo o su destitución en masa.
  4. 4
    Cantidad muy alta de personas que no pasan o suspenden un examen.
  5. 5
    Forma de amedrentamiento, generalmente en forma violenta, entre grupos de skinheads de pensamiento antagónico o contra individuos considerados como indeseables.
  6. 6
    Acción de quitar la pelota del rival tirándose con los pies al suelo y con el riesgo de cometer una infracción.

Synonyms

Frequency rank: #52,101 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "barrida"?
"barrida" is spelled B-A-R-R-I-D-A. The IPA pronunciation is [baˈrið̞a].
What does "barrida" mean?
As a noun, "barrida" means: Acción y efecto de barrer.
How do you pronounce "barrida"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "barrida" is [baˈrið̞a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "barrida" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.