firma
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,898
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
firma is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de firmar o de firmarse. Pronounced [ˈfiɾma]. It ranks #1,898 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with fra and fría.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | firma |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfiɾma] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,898 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for firma is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfiɾma]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,898 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for firma, with forms such as "ffirma", "fimra", and "firam". 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, "fra", "fría", "form", 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 firma, spelled F-I-R-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de firmar o de firmarse.
- 2Leyenda manuscrita que estampa una persona al pie de un documento para señalar que es de su autoría o cuenta con su refrendo.
- 3persona jurídica que realiza una actividad económica.
- 4Figuradamente, señal distintiva que indica el carácter propio e idiosincrático de algo.
- 5Por extensión, autor reconocible por su firma₄
- 6El juicio y despacho en virtud del cual se mantenía a alguno en la posesión de bienes o derechos.
- 7Acto de esparcir o atizar con la badila la lumbre de un brasero.
- 8Nombre y apellido, o título, de una persona, que ésta pone con rúbrica al pie de un documento escrito de mano propia o ajena, para darle autenticidad o para obligarse a lo que en él se diga.
- 9Nombre y apellido, o título, de la persona que no usa rúbrica, o no debe usarla, puesto al pie de un documento.
- 10Conjunto de documentos que se presentan a un jefe para que los firme.
- 11Uno de los cuatro procesos forales de Aragón, por el cual se mantenía a uno en la posesión de los bienes o derechos que se suponía pertenecerle.
- 12Despacho que expedía el tribunal al que se valía de este proceso.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffirma,fimra,firam,firmma,firrma,frima,ifrma
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for firma
Misspelling Variants of "firma"
Frequency rank: #1,898 in Spanish
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