cur
The verdict
“cur” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #71,778 among 77,812 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,778
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 77,812
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sustantivo verbal de cuir; puesta; siembra; enterramiento.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cur |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #71,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cur” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cur is uncommon Spanish at frequency #71,778 among 77,812 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sustantivo verbal de cuir; puesta; siembra; enterramiento.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cur, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is cur, spelled C-U-R.
Definition
- 1Sustantivo verbal de cuir; puesta; siembra; enterramiento.
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 “cur”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.