hamaca
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,678
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
hamaca is aSpanishnoun. It means: Mueble formado por una red o tela de forma oblonga suspendida por sus extremos de árboles o postes, de tal modo de permitir a una o más personas acostarse en ella. Pronounced [aˈmaka]. Often confused with hampa and humana.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hamaca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈmaka] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,678 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for hamaca is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈmaka]. Corpus data places it at rank #29,678 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for hamaca, with forms such as "ahmaca", "haamca", and "hamaac". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "hampa", "humana", "hazaña", 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 hamaca, spelled H-A-M-A-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mueble formado por una red o tela de forma oblonga suspendida por sus extremos de árboles o postes, de tal modo de permitir a una o más personas acostarse en ella.
- 2Silla que se hamaca o mece de delante atrás por lo general sobre un pie pivotante.
- 3Asiento suspendido en el aire por dos cuerdas, que se impulsa como juego de delante atrás con el movimento del cuerpo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ahmaca,haamca,hamaac,hamacca,hamcaa,hammaca,hhamaca,hmaaca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for hamaca
Misspelling Variants of "hamaca"
Frequency rank: #29,678 in Spanish
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