horca
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,812
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
horca is aSpanishnoun. It means: Vara o palo cuyo extremo se bifurca en varias puntas. Pronounced [ˈoɾka]. Often confused with hoya and horn.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | horca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈoɾka] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #23,812 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for horca is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈoɾka]. Corpus data places it at rank #23,812 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for horca, with forms such as "hhorca", "hocra", and "horac". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hoya", "horn", "Horno", 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 horca, spelled H-O-R-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vara o palo cuyo extremo se bifurca en varias puntas.
- 2En particular, herramienta formada por un asta acabada en varias puntas, que se emplea para mover material suelto, como heno u hojarasca.
- 3Yugo en forma de horca₁ que se empleaba antiguamente para pasear públicamente a los vencidos en batalla o a los condenados a penas de escarnio.
- 4Dispositivo similar a una horca₃ que se coloca al cuello de los animales para impedirles pasar entre cercados.
- 5Estructura, antiguamente en forma de horca₁, que se emplea para ejecutar a los reos de pena de muerte colgándolos.
- 6Horca₁ con que se soporta un larguero horizontal o una rama de árbol.
- 7Parte saliente del hueso de la taba.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhorca,hocra,horac,horcca,horrca,hroca,ohrca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for horca
Misspelling Variants of "horca"
Frequency rank: #23,812 in Spanish
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