carta
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#873
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
carta is aSpanishnoun. It means: Escrito de comunicación que una persona o institución envía a otra. Pronounced [ˈkaɾt̪a]. It ranks #873 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with cat and CTA.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkaɾt̪a] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #873 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for carta is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkaɾt̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #873 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for carta, with forms such as "acrta", "carat", and "carrta". 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", "CTA", "CRA", 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 carta, spelled C-A-R-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Escrito de comunicación que una persona o institución envía a otra.
- 2Cada una de las cartulinas que conforman una baraja.
- 3En un restaurante o bar, escrito que detalla los platos o bebidas que se pueden pedir.
- 4Representación sistemática de un territorio de acuerdo a un principio de transposición, en especial en materia náutica.
- 5Tamaño de una hoja de papel (215.9 mm × 279.4 mm, o 8½ × 11 pulgadas).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acrta,carat,carrta,cartta,catra,ccarta,crata
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for carta
Misspelling Variants of "carta"
Frequency rank: #873 in Spanish
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "carta"?
What does "carta" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "carta"?
How do you pronounce "carta"?
What language does "carta" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: