basura
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,563
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
basura is aSpanishnoun. It means: Lo que se recoge con la escoba. Pronounced [baˈsuɾa]. It ranks #1,563 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with batuta and basuras.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | basura |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [baˈsuɾa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,563 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for basura is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [baˈsuɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,563 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 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 basura, with forms such as "absura", "basrua", and "bassura". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "batuta", "basuras", "basa", 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 basura, spelled B-A-S-U-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lo que se recoge con la escoba.
- 2Residuos del trabajo, de la comida o de cualquier otro proceso que no se pueden aprovechar inmediatamente, o son definitivamente descartados.
- 3Cosas rotas o inservibles.
- 4Recipiente donde se deposita la basura_(1–3).
- 5Persona con actitud que provoca disgusto, al punto de ser desechada.
- 6Programa de televisión de pésima calidad.
- 7Dícese de un insulto dirigido a una persona o empresa para denotar que provoca rechazo o disgusto en quien lo profiere.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: absura,basrua,bassura,basuar,basurra,bausra,bbasura,bsaura,vasura
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for basura
Misspelling Variants of "basura"
Frequency rank: #1,563 in Spanish
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