brújula
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,910
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
brújula is aSpanishnoun. It means: Instrumento que sirve para determinar cualquier dirección de la superficie terrestre por medio de una aguja imantada que siempre marca los polos magnéticos Norte-Sur. Pronounced [ˈbɾuxula]. Often confused with bruja.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brújula |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbɾuxula] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,910 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for brújula is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbɾuxula]. Corpus data places it at rank #20,910 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.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for brújula, with forms such as "bbrújula", "brjúula", and "brrújula". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "bruja", 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 brújula, spelled B-R-Ú-J-U-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrumento que sirve para determinar cualquier dirección de la superficie terrestre por medio de una aguja imantada que siempre marca los polos magnéticos Norte-Sur.
- 2Instrumento que se usa a bordo, compuesto de una caja redonda de bronce en la que se hallan dos círculos concéntricos: el interior es de cartón o talco; está puesto en equilibrio sobre una púa, y tiene la rosa náutica; lleva adherida a su línea norte-sur una barrita o flechilla imanada, la cual, arrastrando en su movimiento la rosa de los vientos, indica el rumbo de la nave, por comparación con el otro círculo exterior circunscrito, que está fijo y lleva señalada la dirección de la quilla del buque.
- 3Agujerito que sirve para precisar la puntería de la escopeta y que corresponde a lo que hoy se llama mira, aunque es de otra figura.
- 4Agujerito por donde, recogiendo la vista, se mira mejor un objeto.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbrújula,brjúula,brrújula,brújjula,brújlua,brújual,brújulla,brúujla,búrjula,rbújula,vrújula
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "brújula"
Frequency rank: #20,910 in Spanish
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