cuarta
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,039
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cuarta is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cada una de las cuatro partes iguales de un todo. Pronounced [ˈkwaɾt̪a]. It ranks #3,039 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with cura and curt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuarta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkwaɾt̪a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,039 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cuarta is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkwaɾt̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,039 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 17 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 cuarta, with forms such as "caurta", "ccuarta", and "cuarat". 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, "cura", "curt", "cuota", 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 cuarta, spelled C-U-A-R-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cada una de las cuatro partes iguales de un todo.
- 2Medida de longitud, equivalente a la distancia que hay entre el dedo pulgar y el meñique de una mano extendida o entre el pulgar y el dedo corazón.
- 3En algunos instrumentos de cuerda, la que está en cuarto lugar.
- 4Intervalo de cuatro grados en dos notas de la escala musical.
- 5Cuarta funeral.
- 6En el juego de los cientos, grupo de cuatro cartas consecutivas y de un mismo palo.
- 7Encuarte.
- 8Cuadrante (transportador de un cuarto de círculo usado para medir ángulos).
- 9Cada una de las 32 partes en las que se divide la rosa náutica.
- 10Sección formada por la cuarta parte de un batallón de infantería.
- 11Intervalo entre una nota y su cuarta anterior, compuesto por dos tonos y un semitono.
- 12Mula que guía los coches de caballos.
- 13Unidad de medida para áridos, equivalente a la cuarta parte de un ferrado.
- 14Disciplina (instrumento para castigo).
- 15Fusta (látigo para la caballería).
- 16Cuerda que se usa para remolcar un vehículo.
- 17Cuarta marcha que se selecciona desde la caja de cambios.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: caurta,ccuarta,cuarat,cuarrta,cuartta,cuatra,curata,ucarta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cuarta
Misspelling Variants of "cuarta"
Frequency rank: #3,039 in Spanish
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