fresa
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,852
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
fresa is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Fragaria spp.) Cualquiera de varias especies e híbridos de plantas rastreras de la familia de las rosáceas, cultivadas por su fruto comestible. Son plantas perennes que producen brotes nuevos cada... Pronounced [ˈfɾesa]. Often confused with fría and frey.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fresa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfɾesa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,852 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for fresa is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfɾesa]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,852 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 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 fresa, with forms such as "fersa", "ffresa", and "freas". 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, "fría", "frey", "fuera", 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 fresa, spelled F-R-E-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Fragaria spp.) Cualquiera de varias especies e híbridos de plantas rastreras de la familia de las rosáceas, cultivadas por su fruto comestible. Son plantas perennes que producen brotes nuevos cada año; presentan una roseta basal de donde surgen las hojas y los tallos florales, a cuyo extremo aparecen las flores, de cinco pétalos blancos, cinco sépalos y numerosos estambres. De la roseta basal surgen también otro tipo de tallos rastreros que producen raíces adventicias de donde nacen otras plantas. El fruto es en realidad un eterio, un engrosamiento del receptáculo floral, siendo los puntitos que hay sobre él los auténticos frutos.
- 2Fruto de esta planta, un eterio carnoso de intenso color rosado y forma aproximadamente cónica, muy apreciado en gastronomía por su sabor dulce, ligeramente ácido e intenso aroma. Se consume crudo como fruta de postre y en numerosísimas preparaciones.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fersa,ffresa,freas,fressa,frresa,frsea,rfesa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fresa
Misspelling Variants of "fresa"
Frequency rank: #14,852 in Spanish
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