bruja
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,079
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bruja is aSpanishnoun. It means: Mujer a la que se le atribuyen poderes mágicos y sobrenaturales, en la mayoría de los casos empleados para hacer el mal. Pronounced [ˈbɾuxa]. It ranks #9,079 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with bula and bruto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bruja |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbɾuxa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,079 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for bruja is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbɾuxa]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,079 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for bruja, with forms such as "bbruja", "brjua", and "brruja". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bula", "bruto", "Bruno", 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 bruja, spelled B-R-U-J-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mujer a la que se le atribuyen poderes mágicos y sobrenaturales, en la mayoría de los casos empleados para hacer el mal.
- 2Mujer fea, de edad avanzada o de trato difícil.
- 3Mujer con la que se tiene una mediocre relación de pareja.
- 4Suegra.
- 5Persona que delata a otra.
- 6(Nycticorax nycticorax) Ave pelecaniforme de la familia Ardeidae ampliamente distribuida por Eurasia, África y América. De tamaño medio (entre 60 y 65 cm), ojos de color rojo intenso, garganta, pecho y partes inferiores de un blanco puro; la parte superior de la cabeza y el dorso son de un gris oscuro; de la nuca le salen tres largas plumas blancas; las patas y pies son de color amarillo pálido (algo más intenso en época de cría), y el pico, fuerte aunque no excesivamente largo, es verdoso en la base y negro en la parte superior. Es notable la escasa longitud de su cuello, si lo comparamos con el de otras garzas como la garza real o la garceta común.
- 7Esposa.
- 8Remolino o tolvanera propia del verano, especialmente cuando alcanza gran altura.
- 9Fregona (herramienta para limpiar el piso).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbruja,brjua,brruja,bruaj,brujja,burja,rbuja,vruja
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bruja
Misspelling Variants of "bruja"
Frequency rank: #9,079 in Spanish
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