huella
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,070
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
huella is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de hollar. Pronounced [ˈ(ɣ̞)w̝eʝa]. It ranks #6,070 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with hueva and Huila.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | huella |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈ(ɣ̞)w̝eʝa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,070 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for huella is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈ(ɣ̞)w̝eʝa]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,070 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for huella, with forms such as "heulla", "hhuella", and "huelal". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 18 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 huella, spelled H-U-E-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de hollar.
- 2Señal que deja el pie en el suelo que pisa.
- 3Por extensión, señal que deja una plancha de imprenta sobre la hoja de papel u otro soporte similar.
- 4Más generalmente, señal duradera que evidencia un proceso pasado.
- 5Evidencia o dato que sirve como base para una inferencia.
- 6Senda abierta por el paso frecuente.
- 7Danza folclórica de América del Sur, típica de Argentina, Bolivia, Chile y Uruguay, bailada a lo largo del siglo XIX y hoy casi extinta.
- 8Área de la superfice terrestre alcanzada por las transmisiones de un satélite.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: heulla,hhuella,huelal,hulela,uhella
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for huella
Misspelling Variants of "huella"
Frequency rank: #6,070 in Spanish
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