braza
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#69,173
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
braza is aSpanishnoun. It means: Unidad de longitud arcaica equivalente a la longitud de un par de brazos extendidos, a 2 varas castellanas o a 1,6718 metros. Para los romanos era la distancia media entre las puntas de los pulgare... Pronounced [ˈbɾasa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | braza |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbɾasa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,173 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for braza is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbɾasa]. Corpus data places it at rank #69,173 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for braza 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 braza, spelled B-R-A-Z-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Unidad de longitud arcaica equivalente a la longitud de un par de brazos extendidos, a 2 varas castellanas o a 1,6718 metros. Para los romanos era la distancia media entre las puntas de los pulgares teniendo los brazos extendidos lateralmente.^([cita requerida])
- 2Estilo de natación en el que el nadador extiende simultáneamente ambos brazos, primero hacia adelante y posteriormente a los lados y hacia atrás, a la vez que se impulsa con los pies.
- 3Cada uno de los cabos que, hechos firme en el peñol de una verga de cruz o pasando por un motón encapillado en este sitio, sirven para mover horizontalmente la verga, haciéndola girar sobre la cruz hacia popa o proa según sea preciso.
- 4Longitud de seis pies de Burgos que sirve de medida en todos los usos de la maniobra y pilotaje, siendo entre estos uno el de averiguar la profundidad del mar.
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Frequency rank: #69,173 in Spanish
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