comadre
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#44,056
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
comadre is aSpanishnoun. It means: Madre de un infante, respecto de la madrina y el padrino de éste, o viceversa. Pronounced [koˈmað̞ɾe]. Often confused with compré and comeré.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comadre |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [koˈmað̞ɾe] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #44,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for comadre is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [koˈmað̞ɾe]. Corpus data places it at rank #44,056 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 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 comadre, with forms such as "ccomadre", "cmoadre", and "coamdre". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "compré", "comeré", "compare", 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 comadre, spelled C-O-M-A-D-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Madre de un infante, respecto de la madrina y el padrino de éste, o viceversa.
- 2Mujer que asiste en el parto, con o sin títulos habilitantes.
- 3Mujer cotilla y chismosa.
- 4Vecina que goza de especial confianza.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccomadre,cmoadre,coamdre,comaddre,comader,comadrre,comarde,comdare,commadre,ocmadre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for comadre
Misspelling Variants of "comadre"
Frequency rank: #44,056 in Spanish
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