efímera
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,181
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
efímera is aSpanishnoun. It means: (orden Ephemeroptera) Cualquiera de unas 2500 especies de insectos pterigotos, característicos por su complejo ciclo vital. Pasan la mayor parte de su vida en forma de ninfa, de hábito acuático, mu... Pronounced [eˈfimeɾa]. Often confused with efímero and enumera.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | efímera |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [eˈfimeɾa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,181 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for efímera is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eˈfimeɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #29,181 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for efímera, with forms such as "effímera", "efmíera", and "efíemra". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "efímero", "enumera", "efímeras", 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 efímera, spelled E-F-Í-M-E-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(orden Ephemeroptera) Cualquiera de unas 2500 especies de insectos pterigotos, característicos por su complejo ciclo vital. Pasan la mayor parte de su vida en forma de ninfa, de hábito acuático, mudando repetidamente hasta alcanzar la forma madura de imago alada; la mayoría de las especies sólo vive unas pocas horas en esta forma, muriendo poco después de la reproducción.
- 2Fiebre repentina y pasajera, que se diagnosticaba antiguamente como debida a la fatiga.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: effímera,efmíera,efíemra,efímear,efímerra,efímmera,efímrea,eífmera,feímera
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Misspelling Variants of "efímera"
Frequency rank: #29,181 in Spanish
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