cartera
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,077
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cartera is aSpanishnoun. It means: Bolsa de cuero o telas en que se guardan las cartas y papeles doblados para traerlos en la faltriquera. Pronounced [kaɾˈt̪eɾa]. It ranks #5,077 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with casera and cayera.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cartera |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaɾˈt̪eɾa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cartera is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaɾˈt̪eɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,077 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for cartera, with forms such as "acrtera", "caretra", and "carrtera". 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, "casera", "cayera", "creerá", 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 cartera, spelled C-A-R-T-E-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bolsa de cuero o telas en que se guardan las cartas y papeles doblados para traerlos en la faltriquera.
- 2Bolsa de dos hojas de badana, cartón u otra cosa, que sirve para escribir o dibujar encima, y meter en ella los papeles.
- 3Bolso de mano en el que las mujeres llevan sus efectos personales.
- 4Adorno o portezuela que cubre el bolsillo de las casacas o chupas.
- 5Objeto de piel u otro material textil donde se guardan billetes, monedas, tarjetas y otros objetos de papel o plástico pequeños, para llevar en el bolsillo.
- 6La parte gubernativa de la que se encarga un ministro.
- 7Ejercicio de las funciones propias de cada ministerio.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acrtera,caretra,carrtera,cartear,carterra,cartrea,carttera,catrera,ccartera,cratera
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cartera
Misspelling Variants of "cartera"
Frequency rank: #5,077 in Spanish
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