corchea
Spanish, noun/koɾˈt͡ʃea/
corchea is spelled C-O-R-C-H-E-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written Spanish, the 147,327th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Corchea is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “quaver” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Figura musical equivalente a un octavo de redonda, un cuarto de blanca, media negra o a dos semicorcheas. Su…”.
What does corchea mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininequaver
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Figura musical equivalente a un octavo de redonda, un cuarto de blanca, media negra o a dos semicorcheas. Su forma se distingue de la negra por poseer un trazo o bandera llamdo corchete. Dos o más corcheas pueden unir sus corchetes en trazos rectos llamados barras.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of corchea
- corcheas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce corchea?
- /koɾˈt͡ʃea/
- [koɾˈt͡ʃe.a]
- [koɾˈt͡ʃea]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to corchea
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is corchea in Spanish?
corchea appears about once in every 16 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).