hembra
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,967
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
hembra is aSpanishnoun. It means: En las especies de seres vivos que poseen diferenciación sexual, aquél individuo que produce los huevos, es decir, los gametos de mayor tamaño. En algunas especies animales, es también la que aloja... Pronounced [ˈẽmbɾa]. It ranks #8,967 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Hera and hombre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hembra |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈẽmbɾa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,967 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for hembra is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈẽmbɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,967 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 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 hembra, with forms such as "ehmbra", "hebmra", and "hembar". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Hera", "hombre", "hombro", 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 hembra, spelled H-E-M-B-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1En las especies de seres vivos que poseen diferenciación sexual, aquél individuo que produce los huevos, es decir, los gametos de mayor tamaño. En algunas especies animales, es también la que aloja ambos gametos durante la fertilización y, en los vivíparos, durante la preñez.
- 2Pieza mecánica o electrónica de forma hueca en la que se encaja otra.
- 3Anilla de metal unida a una fijación en forma de tornillo o tarugo.
- 4En la baraja española, el as de bastos.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ehmbra,hebmra,hembar,hembbra,hembrra,hemmbra,hemrba,hemvra,hhembra,hmebra
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Misspelling Variants of "hembra"
Frequency rank: #8,967 in Spanish
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