cera
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,952
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
3
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cera is aSpanishnoun. It means: 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 ... Pronounced [ˈseɾa]. It ranks #9,952 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with cha and cía.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cera is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈseɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,952 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 3 documented wrong-spelling variants for cera, with forms such as "ccera", "cerra", and "ecra". 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, "cha", "cía", "cor", 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 cera, spelled C-E-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccera,cerra,ecra
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cera
Misspelling Variants of "cera"
Frequency rank: #9,952 in Spanish
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