cera
[ˈseɾa]
The verdict
“cera” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #9,952 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #9,952
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4
- letters
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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 ...
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) |
Where “cera” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cera is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 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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Using “cera”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-E-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈseɾa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “cha” - see the side-by-side comparison. cera vs cha
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.