burla
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,382
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
burla is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o dicho destinada a buscar el ridículo de alguno por diversión o inquina, atacando al adversario. Pronounced [ˈbuɾla]. It ranks #6,382 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with buró and burn.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | burla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbuɾla] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,382 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for burla is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbuɾla]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,382 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 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 burla, with forms such as "bburla", "brula", and "bulra". 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, "buró", "burn", "busca", 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 burla, spelled B-U-R-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o dicho destinada a buscar el ridículo de alguno por diversión o inquina, atacando al adversario.
- 2Acción o dicho ingenioso hecho para divertir.
- 3Acción o dicho engañoso.
- 4Actitud de falta de ética y respeto.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bburla,brula,bulra,bural,burlla,burrla,ubrla,vurla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for burla
Misspelling Variants of "burla"
Frequency rank: #6,382 in Spanish
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