hierba
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,172
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
hierba is aSpanishnoun. It means: Planta cuyo tallo, raíz y ramaje no presentan lignificación, es decir, carecen de las estructuras leñosas típicas de la madera en árboles y arbustos. La estructura herbácea es independiente de la d... Pronounced [ˈjeɾβ̞a]. It ranks #7,172 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with hiere and hierro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hierba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈjeɾβ̞a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,172 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for hierba is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈjeɾβ̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,172 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 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 hierba, with forms such as "heirba", "hhierba", and "hiebra". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "hiere", "hierro", "huerta", 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 hierba, spelled H-I-E-R-B-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Planta cuyo tallo, raíz y ramaje no presentan lignificación, es decir, carecen de las estructuras leñosas típicas de la madera en árboles y arbustos. La estructura herbácea es independiente de la duración del ciclo de vida de la planta; muchas hierbas son vivaces, perdiendo las partes tiernas en invierno pero brotando nuevamente a partir de un bulbo o rizoma todos los años, mientras que otras son perennes.
- 2Por antonomasia, las gramíneas que recubren el suelo en las praderas o parques.
- 3Planta cuyas hojas o partes tiernas se emplean en gastronomía, para bebidas o condimento, independientemente de si la planta en sí es herbácea.
- 4Planta cuyas hojas se consumen como fármaco o droga, en especial la marihuana.
- 5Por extensión, preparado medicinal o recreativo elaborado con estas hojas.
- 6Unidad de años de vida, para los animales herbívoros que se crían en los pastos.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: heirba,hhierba,hiebra,hierab,hierbba,hierrba,hireba,iherba
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Misspelling Variants of "hierba"
Frequency rank: #7,172 in Spanish
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