cera
[ˈseɾa]
The verdict
“cera” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,952) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,952
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se llama así a cualquier éster de los ácidos grasos con alcoholes de peso molecular elevado, es decir, son moléculas que se obtienen por esterificación de un ácido graso con un alcohol monovalente ...
Corpus desk
Index ES-cera · cera · Spanish
cera · rank #9,952 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,952
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH Cecilia
Nearest frequency peer: Cecilia (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “cera”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Cantabria
Cantabria
90,052 corpus weight
- carpeta
carpeta
90,051 corpus weight
- Cecilia
Cecilia
90,050 corpus weight
- cera
cera
90,049 corpus weight
- cercanía
cercanía
90,048 corpus weight
- certamen
certamen
90,047 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “cera” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cera |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈseɾa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,952 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “cera”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cera is neighbouring look-alikes ("cha", "cía", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈseɾa]. Frequency #9,952 among 8,288 “C” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for cera, with forms such as "ccera", "cerra", and "ecra". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cha", "cía", "cor", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is cera, spelled C-E-R-A.
Definition
- 1Se llama así a cualquier éster de los ácidos grasos con alcoholes de peso molecular elevado, es decir, son moléculas que se obtienen por esterificación de un ácido graso con un alcohol monovalente lineal de cadena larga. Por ejemplo la cera de abeja. Son sustancias altamente insolubles en medios acuosos y a temperatura ambiente se presentan sólidas y duras. En los animales la podemos encontrar en la superficie del cuerpo, piel, plumas. En vegetales las ceras recubren en la epidermis de frutos, tallos, junto con la cutícula o la suberina, que evitan la pérdida de agua por evaporación en las plantas.
- 2La cera [1] de abeja.
- 3El cerumen que se produce en los oídos.
- 4Membrana carnosa, a menudo cerosa, que rodea las narinas en el pico de ciertas aves, como las rapaces, gallinas y palomas, entre otras.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccera
- cerra
- ecra
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cera - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).