cara
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#444
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cara is aSpanishnoun. It means: En el hombre y algunos animales, parte frontal de la cabeza, donde se encuentran los ojos, nariz y boca. Pronounced [ˈkaɾa]. It ranks #444 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with cat and cha.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cara |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkaɾa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #444 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cara is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkaɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #444 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 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 cara, with forms such as "acra", "caar", and "carra". 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, "cat", "cha", "cas", 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 cara, spelled C-A-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1En el hombre y algunos animales, parte frontal de la cabeza, donde se encuentran los ojos, nariz y boca.
- 2Superficie exterior de un poliedro.
- 3En general, cada una de las superficies de un objeto sólido.
- 4Gesto o expresión que adopta el rostro para indicar el ánimo.
- 5Cada una de las fachadas de un edificio.
- 6Aspecto que en general ofrece una situación o asunto.
- 7Descaro en el comportamiento o actitud.
- 8Haz principal de una moneda, que lleva muchas veces la efigie de una figura histórica o alegórica.
- 9Lado de un polígono.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acra,caar,carra,ccara,craa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cara
Misspelling Variants of "cara"
Frequency rank: #444 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: