cuaresma
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,206
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
cuaresma is aSpanishnoun. It means: Tiempo litúrgico variable, en los credos católico, ortodoxo, anglicano y algunos evangélicos, dedicado a preparación de la festividad pascual: la resurrección de Jesucristo. En el rito latino comie... Pronounced [kwaˈɾesma]. Often confused with carisma and cuarenta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuaresma |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kwaˈɾesma] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,206 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cuaresma is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kwaˈɾesma]. Corpus data places it at rank #18,206 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for cuaresma, with forms such as "cauresma", "ccuaresma", and "cuaersma". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "carisma", "cuarenta", 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 cuaresma, spelled C-U-A-R-E-S-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tiempo litúrgico variable, en los credos católico, ortodoxo, anglicano y algunos evangélicos, dedicado a preparación de la festividad pascual: la resurrección de Jesucristo. En el rito latino comienza el miércoles de ceniza y termina justo antes de la «misa de la cena del Señor», la tarde del jueves santo. Comprende seis domingos, hasta el denominado «de ramos» (siete si se incluye el de pascua).
- 2Sermones dominicales que se pronuncian durante la cuaresma.
- 3Libro que contiene los textos de las lecturas acerca del tema de la cuaresma, por autor.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cauresma,ccuaresma,cuaersma,cuaremsa,cuaresam,cuaresmma,cuaressma,cuarresma,cuarsema,curaesma,ucaresma
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "cuaresma"
Frequency rank: #18,206 in Spanish
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