birria

/[ˈbirja]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#72,544

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

birria is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cosa o persona insignificante, poco importante, sin valor. Pronounced [ˈbirja].

Key facts for birria
PropertyValue
Headwordbirria
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈbirja]
Letters6
Frequency rank#72,544
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for birria is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbirja]. Corpus data places it at rank #72,544 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for birria in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 birria, spelled B-I-R-R-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cosa o persona insignificante, poco importante, sin valor.
  2. 2
    Cosa o persona cuya apariencia produce lástima o desprecio.
  3. 3
    Exageración o terquedad en el gusto por cierto pasatiempo o deporte.
  4. 4
    Barbacoa de chivo, puerco o borrego, asado a bajo calor y a veces aromatizado con hojas de maguey.
  5. 5
    Estado poco agradable, de fastidio, aburrimiento o incomodidad..

Frequency rank: #72,544 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "birria"?
"birria" is spelled B-I-R-R-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈbirja].
What does "birria" mean?
As a noun, "birria" means: Cosa o persona insignificante, poco importante, sin valor.
How do you pronounce "birria"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "birria" is [ˈbirja]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "birria" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.