esfera
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,056
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
esfera is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cuerpo limitado por una superficie curva cuyos puntos están todos a la misma distancia del punto interior llamado centro. Pronounced [esˈfeɾa]. It ranks #6,056 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Ester and espero.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esfera |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [esˈfeɾa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for esfera is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [esˈfeɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,056 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 esfera, with forms such as "efsera", "esefra", and "esfear". 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, "Ester", "espero", "espera", 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 esfera, spelled E-S-F-E-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cuerpo limitado por una superficie curva cuyos puntos están todos a la misma distancia del punto interior llamado centro.
- 2Por extensión, objeto de forma aproximadamente similar a esta.
- 3En un reloj o en un objeto semejante, círculo o superficie en el que giran las manecillas.
- 4Figurativamente, ámbito social en el que alguno se mueve.
- 5Figurativamente, ámbito de influencia o acción de una entidad.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: efsera,esefra,esfear,esferra,esffera,esfrea,essfera,sefera
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for esfera
Misspelling Variants of "esfera"
Frequency rank: #6,056 in Spanish
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