cuidada

/[kwiˈð̞að̞a]/ participle

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#30,009

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

19

similar word pairs

cuidada is aSpanishparticiple. It means: Forma del femenino de cuidado, participio de cuidar o de cuidarse. Pronounced [kwiˈð̞að̞a]. Often confused with cuidar and cuidan.

Key facts for cuidada
PropertyValue
Headwordcuidada
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechParticiple
IPA[kwiˈð̞að̞a]
Letters7
Frequency rank#30,009
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs19
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cuidada in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for cuidada is 7 letters long, classified as aparticiple, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kwiˈð̞að̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #30,009 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Forma del femenino de cuidado, participio de cuidar o de cuidarse.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for cuidada, with forms such as "ccuidada", "ciudada", and "cudiada". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "cuidar", "cuidan", "cuidas", 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 cuidada, spelled C-U-I-D-A-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Forma del femenino de cuidado, participio de cuidar o de cuidarse.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccuidada,ciudada,cudiada,cuiadda,cuidaad,cuidadda,cuiddaa,cuiddada,ucidada

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cuidada

Misspelling Variants of "cuidada"

ccuidada8ciudada7cudiada7cuiadda7cuidaad7cuidadda8cuiddaa7cuiddada8
Misspelling Variants of "cuidada"

Frequency rank: #30,009 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cuidada"?
"cuidada" is spelled C-U-I-D-A-D-A. The IPA pronunciation is [kwiˈð̞að̞a].
What does "cuidada" mean?
As a participle, "cuidada" means: Forma del femenino de cuidado, participio de cuidar o de cuidarse.
What words are commonly confused with "cuidada"?
"cuidada" is commonly confused with "cuidar", "cuidan", "cuidas". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cuidada"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cuidada" is [kwiˈð̞að̞a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cuidada" come from?
"cuidada" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.