cama
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,134
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cama is aSpanishnoun. It means: Mueble que sirve para recostarse sobre él para dormir. Pronounced [ˈkama]. It ranks #1,134 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with com and can.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cama |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkama] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,134 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cama is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkama]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,134 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for cama, with forms such as "acma", "caam", and "camma". 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, "com", "can", "cap", 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 cama, spelled C-A-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mueble que sirve para recostarse sobre él para dormir.
- 2El conjunto de la cama propiamente dicha y todos los accesorios que la acompañan: colchón, sábanas, frazadas, almohada o faceruelo, mantas, cubrecama, edredón, etc.
- 3Superficie plana o capa donde otros objetos son colocados.
- 4Plaza para un enfermo en un hospital.
- 5Lugar en el que se echan los animales para descansar.
- 6Mullido de paja, helecho u otras plantas que en los establos sirve para que el ganado descanse y haga estiércol.
- 7Parte trasera del camión, en donde se lleva la carga.
- 8Capa de tierra para sembrar en los almácigos.
- 9En el melón y otros frutos, parte que está pegada contra la tierra mientras están en la mata.
- 10En los guisados, porción de vianda que se echa extendida encima de otra para que se comuniquen el calor.
- 11Hoyo que forma en la arena o en el fango una embarcación varada.
- 12Variante obsoleta de camada.
- 13Sepulcro.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acma,caam,camma,ccama,cmaa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cama
Misspelling Variants of "cama"
Frequency rank: #1,134 in Spanish
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