cura
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,874
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cura is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de cuidar. Pronounced [ˈkuɾa]. It ranks #2,874 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with cut and cuyo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cura |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkuɾa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,874 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cura is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkuɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,874 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for cura, with forms such as "ccura", "crua", and "cuar". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cut", "cuyo", "cuya", 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 cura, spelled C-U-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de cuidar.
- 2Condición o carácter de curador.
- 3Acción o efecto de curar.
- 4Conjunto de fármacos y procedimientos que se prescriben para curar o aliviar una dolencia.
- 5Acción o efecto de emborracharse.
- 6Fruto comestible del palto (Persea americana), una baya piriforme, cubierta por una cáscara verde, dura y áspera, que protege una pulpa verdeamarillenta, comestible, muy rica en lípidos, con una única semilla de hasta 5 cm de diámetro en su interior.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccura,crua,cuar,curra,ucra
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cura
Misspelling Variants of "cura"
Frequency rank: #2,874 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: