curva
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,507
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
curva is aSpanishnoun. It means: Línea o dirección que no es recta, que se dobla o cambia gradualmente de rumbo o inclinación sin formar ángulos. Pronounced [ˈkuɾβ̞a]. It ranks #6,507 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with cuya and curvo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | curva |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkuɾβ̞a] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,507 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for curva is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkuɾβ̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,507 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for curva, with forms such as "ccurva", "cruva", and "curav". 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, "cuya", "curvo", "curvas", 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 curva, spelled C-U-R-V-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Línea o dirección que no es recta, que se dobla o cambia gradualmente de rumbo o inclinación sin formar ángulos.
- 2Línea que no es recta en ninguno de sus segmentos; fragmento de una elipse o de un círculo.
- 3Segmento o tramo no recto de una vía, carretera, camino, etc.
- 4Dentro de un gráfico de estadística, línea que muestra la variación de un fenómeno a lo largo de un conjunto de variables (en diferentes momentos, lugares, etc.).
- 5Pieza no recta que sirve para asegurar dos o más maderos o travesaños unidos en ángulo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccurva,cruva,curav,curba,currva,curvva,cuvra,ucrva
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for curva
Misspelling Variants of "curva"
Frequency rank: #6,507 in Spanish
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