cueca
[ˈkweka]
The verdict
“cueca” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #41,834 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #41,834
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5
- letters
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Género musical sudamericano que se baila en pareja suelta y en que ambos bailarines llevan pañuelos. El hombre persigue a la mujer haciendo círculos y ochos sobre la pista y dando zapateos durante ...
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cueca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkweka] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #41,834 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cueca” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cueca is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkweka]. Corpus data places it at rank #41,834 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Género musical sudamericano que se baila en pareja suelta y en que ambos bailarines llevan pañuelos. El hombre persigue a la mujer haciendo círculos y ochos sobre la pista y dando zapateos durante ...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for cueca, with forms such as "ccueca", "ceuca", and "cucea". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cuya", "cura", "cuña", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is cueca, spelled C-U-E-C-A.
Definition
- 1Género musical sudamericano que se baila en pareja suelta y en que ambos bailarines llevan pañuelos. El hombre persigue a la mujer haciendo círculos y ochos sobre la pista y dando zapateos durante ciertos momentos. En Chile y en (Tarija) Bolivia se considera el baile nacional y en Argentina es tradicional en algunas provincias del noroeste.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccueca,ceuca,cucea,cueac,cuecca,uceca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cueca - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “cueca”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-U-E-C-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈkweka] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “cuya” - see the side-by-side comparison. cueca vs cuya
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.