carrera
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#682
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
carrera is aSpanishnoun. It means: Competición atlética consistente en recorrer una distancia determinada en un tiempo inferior al empleado por los demás participantes. Pronounced [kaˈreɾa]. It ranks #682 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with correr and correa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carrera |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈreɾa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #682 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for carrera is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈreɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #682 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 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 carrera, with forms such as "acrrera", "carera", and "carerra". 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, "correr", "correa", "casera", 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 carrera, spelled C-A-R-R-E-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Competición atlética consistente en recorrer una distancia determinada en un tiempo inferior al empleado por los demás participantes.
- 2Vía suficientemente amplia como para que puedan circular carros.
- 3Avenida generalmente en sentido norte-sur y viceversa, en oposición a la calle (en sentido oriente - occidente y viceversa).
- 4Recorrido o trayectoria de un objeto que se desplaza.
- 5Trayectoria profesional de una persona.
- 6Programa de estudios que conduce a la obtención de un título universitario.
- 7Cada servicio o recorrido que hace un taxi u otro vehículo de servicio público.
- 8Llegada al plato o goma₂ que marca la anotación de un punto, sea desde la tercera base, o pasando por todas de una sola bateada.
- 9En las medias: Roto a lo largo de la pierna.
- 10Recorrido y actividad de las prostitutas.
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acrrera,carera,carerra,carrear,carrerra,carrrea,ccarrera,crarera
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for carrera
Misspelling Variants of "carrera"
Frequency rank: #682 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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