chueca
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#40,185
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
chueca is aSpanishnoun. It means: Juego tradicional mapuche. El juego consiste en dos grupos de jugadores, provistos de palos curvos (chuecas), que golpean una pelota pequeña para llevarla hasta la meta. Pronounced [ˈt͡ʃweka]. Often confused with cuca and cueva.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chueca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡ʃweka] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #40,185 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for chueca is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡ʃweka]. Corpus data places it at rank #40,185 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for chueca, with forms such as "cchueca", "cheuca", and "chhueca". 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, "cuca", "cueva", "chupa", 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 chueca, spelled C-H-U-E-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Juego tradicional mapuche. El juego consiste en dos grupos de jugadores, provistos de palos curvos (chuecas), que golpean una pelota pequeña para llevarla hasta la meta.
- 2Palo curvo en su extremo, usado en el deporte tradicional mapuche del mismo nombre.
- 3Por extensión, palo curvo usado en el deporte moderno llamado hockey (hockey sobre césped y hochey en patines).
- 4Bolita pequeña con que los labradores suelen jugar al juego de la chueca.
- 5Hueso redondeado o parte de él que encaja en el hueco de otro en una coyuntura; como la rótula en la rodilla, la cabeza del húmero en el hombro y la del fémur en la cadera.
- 6Tocón (parte de un árbol que queda unida a la raíz al ser talado).
- 7Burla, chasco.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cchueca,cheuca,chhueca,chucea,chueac,chuecca,cuheca,hcueca
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chueca
Misspelling Variants of "chueca"
Frequency rank: #40,185 in Spanish
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