cultura

/[kul̪ˈt̪uɾa]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#478

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

9

similar word pairs

cultura is aSpanishnoun. It means: Conjunto de costumbres, valores y creencias de una comunidad, región o época, las cuales comparten varias ideas o puntos de vista. Pronounced [kul̪ˈt̪uɾa]. It ranks #478 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with culture and cultural.

Key facts for cultura
PropertyValue
Headwordcultura
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[kul̪ˈt̪uɾa]
Letters7
Frequency rank#478
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for cultura is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kul̪ˈt̪uɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #478 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 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 cultura, with forms such as "ccultura", "clutura", and "culltura". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "culture", "cultural", "culta", 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 cultura, spelled C-U-L-T-U-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Conjunto de costumbres, valores y creencias de una comunidad, región o época, las cuales comparten varias ideas o puntos de vista.
  2. 2
    Conocimiento que conduce a un enriquecimiento personal, al motivar el desarrollo de un sentido crítico.
  3. 3
    Resultado o efecto de cultivar los conocimientos humanos (literatura, historia, música, bellas artes, etc.) y de afinarse por medio del ejercicio las facultades intelectuales.
  4. 4
    Cultivo.
  5. 5
    Modo de proceder basado en la cortesía y el respeto.

Synonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccultura,clutura,culltura,cultrua,culttura,cultuar,culturra,culutra,cutlura,ucltura

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cultura

Misspelling Variants of "cultura"

ccultura8clutura7culltura8cultrua7culttura8cultuar7culturra8culutra7
Misspelling Variants of "cultura"

Frequency rank: #478 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cultura"?
"cultura" is spelled C-U-L-T-U-R-A. The IPA pronunciation is [kul̪ˈt̪uɾa].
What does "cultura" mean?
As a noun, "cultura" means: Conjunto de costumbres, valores y creencias de una comunidad, región o época, las cuales comparten varias ideas o puntos de vista.
What words are commonly confused with "cultura"?
"cultura" is commonly confused with "culture", "cultural", "culta". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cultura"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cultura" is [kul̪ˈt̪uɾa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cultura" come from?
"cultura" 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.