concha
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,685
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
concha is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pieza sólida y resistente que protege el cuerpo de diversas clases de animales. Se denomina con más precisión valva en los moluscos y caparazón en los crustáceos y quelónidos. Pronounced [ˈkõnʲt͡ʃa]. It ranks #3,685 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with conga and contra.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | concha |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkõnʲt͡ʃa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,685 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for concha is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkõnʲt͡ʃa]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,685 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for concha, with forms such as "cconcha", "cnocha", and "cocnha". 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, "conga", "contra", "consta", 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 concha, spelled C-O-N-C-H-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pieza sólida y resistente que protege el cuerpo de diversas clases de animales. Se denomina con más precisión valva en los moluscos y caparazón en los crustáceos y quelónidos.
- 2Material córneo muy apreciado obtenido del caparazón de la tortuga carey.
- 3Ornamento similar a la valva de un molusco, estriado radialmente, que se usa en heráldica y arquitectura.
- 4Cubierta en forma de venera que protege de la vista del público la cámara del apuntador en el tablado de un teatro.
- 5Capa o película que recubre alguna cosa.
- 6Cápsula vacía de un proyectil.
- 7Ensenada cerrada y poco profunda.
- 8Superficie semicircular de una charretera.
- 9Moneda de cobre, de valor equivalente a dos cuartos y con una venera impresa en la ceca, que se acuñaba en Galicia entre los siglos XV y XVII.
- 10Depresión central de la oreja.
- 11Aparato genital femenino.
- 12Cáscara, piel, corteza.
- 13Descaro, desfachatez.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cconcha,cnocha,cocnha,concah,conccha,conchha,conhca,conncha,ocncha
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for concha
Misspelling Variants of "concha"
Frequency rank: #3,685 in Spanish
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