estatua

/[esˈt̪at̪wa]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,831

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

17

similar word pairs

estatua is aSpanishnoun. It means: Escultura labrada a imitación del natural, pero habitualmente de tamaño algo mayor, apropiada para colocar en sitios públicos. Pronounced [esˈt̪at̪wa]. It ranks #5,831 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with estatus and estatuto.

Key facts for estatua
PropertyValue
Headwordestatua
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[esˈt̪at̪wa]
Letters7
Frequency rank#5,831
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs17
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of estatua in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for estatua is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [esˈt̪at̪wa]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,831 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Escultura labrada a imitación del natural, pero habitualmente de tamaño algo mayor, apropiada para colocar en sitios públicos.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for estatua, with forms such as "esattua", "esstatua", and "estatau". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "estatus", "estatuto", "estatuas", 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 estatua, spelled E-S-T-A-T-U-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Escultura labrada a imitación del natural, pero habitualmente de tamaño algo mayor, apropiada para colocar en sitios públicos.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: esattua,esstatua,estatau,estattua,estauta,esttatua,esttaua,etsatua,setatua

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for estatua

Misspelling Variants of "estatua"

esattua7esstatua8estatau7estattua8estauta7esttatua8esttaua7etsatua7
Misspelling Variants of "estatua"

Frequency rank: #5,831 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "estatua"?
"estatua" is spelled E-S-T-A-T-U-A. The IPA pronunciation is [esˈt̪at̪wa].
What does "estatua" mean?
As a noun, "estatua" means: Escultura labrada a imitación del natural, pero habitualmente de tamaño algo mayor, apropiada para colocar en sitios públicos.
What words are commonly confused with "estatua"?
"estatua" is commonly confused with "estatus", "estatuto", "estatuas". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "estatua"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "estatua" is [esˈt̪at̪wa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "estatua" come from?
"estatua" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.