hortera
[oɾˈt̪eɾa]
The verdict
“hortera” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #72,855 among 1,569 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,855
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,569
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - De gusto malo o vulgar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-hortera · hortera · Spanish
hortera · rank #72,855 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,855
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,569
- PHOTO-FINISH hortaliza
Nearest frequency peer: hortaliza (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “hortera”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- honroso
honroso
27,150 corpus weight
- horrorosas
horrorosas
27,148 corpus weight
- hortaliza
hortaliza
27,147 corpus weight
- hortera
hortera
27,146 corpus weight
- hospedaba
hospedaba
27,145 corpus weight
- hundidas
hundidas
27,143 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “hortera” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hortera |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [oɾˈt̪eɾa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,855 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “hortera” en español
Rare enough to double-check
hortera is uncommon Spanish at frequency #72,855 among 1,569 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [oɾˈt̪eɾa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "De gusto malo o vulgar.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hortera, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is hortera, spelled H-O-R-T-E-R-A.
Definition
- 1De gusto malo o vulgar.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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