espuela
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#69,374
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
espuela is aSpanishnoun. It means: Espiga metálica que se colocan en el talón de las botas de quien cabalga, con el propósito de dirigir los movimientos del caballo. Pronounced [esˈpwela].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | espuela |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [esˈpwela] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,374 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for espuela is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [esˈpwela]. Corpus data places it at rank #69,374 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for espuela in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 espuela, spelled E-S-P-U-E-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espiga metálica que se colocan en el talón de las botas de quien cabalga, con el propósito de dirigir los movimientos del caballo.
- 2Por extensión cosa que sirve para estimular.
- 3Última bebida que toma una persona antes de partir del lugar donde se encuentra.
- 4Apófisis ósea de las aves.
- 5Espoleta (horquilla de las clavículas del ave).
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #69,374 in Spanish
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