huelga

/[ˈ(ɣ̞)w̝elɣ̞a]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,711

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

14

similar word pairs

huelga is aSpanishnoun. It means: Interrupción o alteración que los trabajadores hacen de su actividad para protestar contra las condiciones en las que la desempeñan. Pronounced [ˈ(ɣ̞)w̝elɣ̞a]. It ranks #3,711 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with hueva and Huila.

Key facts for huelga
PropertyValue
Headwordhuelga
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈ(ɣ̞)w̝elɣ̞a]
Letters6
Frequency rank#3,711
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of huelga in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for huelga is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈ(ɣ̞)w̝elɣ̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,711 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 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 huelga, with forms such as "heulga", "hhuelga", and "huegla". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "hueva", "Huila", "huelo", 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 huelga, spelled H-U-E-L-G-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Interrupción o alteración que los trabajadores hacen de su actividad para protestar contra las condiciones en las que la desempeñan.
  2. 2
    Período de descanso u ocio.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: heulga,hhuelga,huegla,huelag,huelgga,huellga,hulega,uhelga

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for huelga

Misspelling Variants of "huelga"

heulga6hhuelga7huegla6huelag6huelgga7huellga7hulega6uhelga6
Misspelling Variants of "huelga"

Frequency rank: #3,711 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "huelga"?
"huelga" is spelled H-U-E-L-G-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈ(ɣ̞)w̝elɣ̞a].
What does "huelga" mean?
As a noun, "huelga" means: Interrupción o alteración que los trabajadores hacen de su actividad para protestar contra las condiciones en las que la desempeñan.
What words are commonly confused with "huelga"?
"huelga" is commonly confused with "hueva", "Huila", "huelo". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "huelga"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "huelga" is [ˈ(ɣ̞)w̝elɣ̞a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "huelga" come from?
"huelga" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.