cuchara
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,568
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
cuchara is aSpanishnoun. It means: Utensilio que sirve para llevar a la boca algunos alimentos. Se compone de una parte cóncava donde se deposita el alimento que se prolonga en forma de mango para agarrarla. Pronounced [kuˈt͡ʃaɾa]. Often confused with cuidará and cucharada.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuchara |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kuˈt͡ʃaɾa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,568 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cuchara is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kuˈt͡ʃaɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,568 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 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 cuchara, with forms such as "ccuchara", "ccuhara", and "cucahra". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "cuidará", "cucharada", "cochera", 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 cuchara, spelled C-U-C-H-A-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Utensilio que sirve para llevar a la boca algunos alimentos. Se compone de una parte cóncava donde se deposita el alimento que se prolonga en forma de mango para agarrarla.
- 2El contenido de una cuchara.
- 3Instrumento con forma de cuchara usado para otros fines.
- 4Instrumento metálico para avivar el fuego y mover las brasas.
- 5Llana, instrumento de albañil.
- 6Ratero.
- 7Genitales internos y externos —es decir, vagina y vulva— de la mujer.
- 8Corazón, órgano del aparato circulatorio del cuerpo humano.
- 9Posición en la que dos personas se acuestan abrazadas mirando hacia el mismo lado, con el cuerpo curvado aproximadamente con la forma de una cuchara.
- 10Tiro o pase suave hecho para que la pelota pase por encima del arquero o un defensor rival que está más adelantado que su posición habitual.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccuchara,ccuhara,cucahra,cucchara,cuchaar,cucharra,cuchhara,cuchraa,cuhcara,ucchara
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cuchara
Misspelling Variants of "cuchara"
Frequency rank: #12,568 in Spanish
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