herradura
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,078
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
herradura is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pieza en forma de "U", construida de hierro, caucho, plástico o cuero, que se clava o adhiere como protección a los cascos de caballerías y, en ocasiones, a las pezuñas de reses y vacunos. Pronounced [eraˈð̞uɾa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | herradura |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [eraˈð̞uɾa] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #26,078 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for herradura is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eraˈð̞uɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #26,078 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 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for herradura, with forms such as "ehrradura", "heradura", and "herardura". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 herradura, spelled H-E-R-R-A-D-U-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pieza en forma de "U", construida de hierro, caucho, plástico o cuero, que se clava o adhiere como protección a los cascos de caballerías y, en ocasiones, a las pezuñas de reses y vacunos.
- 2Pieza de algún material rápido de improvisar (como cáñamo, esparto o tela) con que se cubren las patas de las bestias cuando se deshierran.
- 3Tipo de murciélago cuyos orificios nasales están rodeados por una membrana que se parece a la forma de la herradura₁.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ehrradura,heradura,herardura,herraddura,herradrua,herraduar,herradurra,herraudra,herrdaura,hherradura,hreradura
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for herradura
Misspelling Variants of "herradura"
Frequency rank: #26,078 in Spanish
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