fortuna
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,705
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
fortuna is aSpanishnoun. It means: Causa fortuita o de origen indeterminado de cualquier hecho. Pronounced [foɾˈt̪una]. It ranks #3,705 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with fortune and fortunas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fortuna |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [foɾˈt̪una] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,705 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for fortuna is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [foɾˈt̪una]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,705 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for fortuna, with forms such as "ffortuna", "forrtuna", and "fortnua". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "fortune", "fortunas", "Fortunato", 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 fortuna, spelled F-O-R-T-U-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Causa fortuita o de origen indeterminado de cualquier hecho.
- 2Causa fortuita o de origen indeterminado de un hecho favorable.
- 3Riqueza material que posee una persona, bienes o caudal acumulados.
- 4Aprobación, aceptación que recibe un hecho o cosa.
- 5Meteoro marino o terrestre de viento y lluvia.
- 6Causa fortuita o de origen indeterminado de un hecho desfavorable.
- 7Gran cantidad de dinero.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffortuna,forrtuna,fortnua,forttuna,fortuan,fortunna,forutna,fotruna,frotuna,ofrtuna
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fortuna
Misspelling Variants of "fortuna"
Frequency rank: #3,705 in Spanish
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