hora punta
The verdict
“hora punta” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 10
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Momento de máximo tránsito u ocupación de un servicio, especialmente de comunicaciones o transporte
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hora punta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈoɾa ˈpũn̪t̪a] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hora punta” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for hora punta is 10 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈoɾa ˈpũn̪t̪a]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Momento de máximo tránsito u ocupación de un servicio, especialmente de comunicaciones o transporte".
No misspelling variants are generated for hora punta in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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 hora punta, spelled H-O-R-A- -P-U-N-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Momento de máximo tránsito u ocupación de un servicio, especialmente de comunicaciones o transporte
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is H-O-R-A- -P-U-N-T-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈoɾa ˈpũn̪t̪a] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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