culebra
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#24,451
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
culebra is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Colubridae) Ofidio caracterizado por tener la cabeza recubierta de escamas grandes de disposición típica, escamas dorsales y laterales del cuerpo de contorno aproximadamente romboidal y una sola f... Pronounced [kuˈleβ̞ɾa]. Often confused with culero and culera.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | culebra |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kuˈleβ̞ɾa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #24,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for culebra is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kuˈleβ̞ɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #24,451 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 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 culebra, with forms such as "cculebra", "cluebra", and "cuelbra". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "culero", "culera", "cultura", 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 culebra, spelled C-U-L-E-B-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Colubridae) Ofidio caracterizado por tener la cabeza recubierta de escamas grandes de disposición típica, escamas dorsales y laterales del cuerpo de contorno aproximadamente romboidal y una sola fila de escamas ensanchadas en la parte ventral
- 2Por extensión, ofidio que resulta inofensivo para el hombre
- 3(suborden Serpentes, sin. Ophidia) Por extensión, cualquiera de varios miles de especies de reptiles diápsidos, muy característicos por la carencia de patas y la forma alargada del cuerpo, recubierto de escamas de colores que van de los muy vivos a los crípticos. Se desplazan mediante ondulaciones laterales del cuerpo, y son rápidos y eficaces predadores. Algunas especies son capaces de constricción, mientras que otras inyectan veneno mediante colmillos modificados
- 4Cabo fino al que se amarran las velas pequeñas
- 5Tubo en espiral que se usa para enfriar los fluidos que pasan por su interior
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cculebra,cluebra,cuelbra,culbera,culebar,culebbra,culebrra,culerba,culevra,cullebra,uclebra
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for culebra
Misspelling Variants of "culebra"
Frequency rank: #24,451 in Spanish
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