huracán
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,071
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
huracán is aSpanishnoun. It means: Viento sumamente impetuoso y temible que, a modo de torbellino, gira en grandes círculos, cuyo diámetro crece a medida que avanzan apartándose de las zonas de calmas tropicales, donde suele tener o... Pronounced [uɾaˈkãn]. It ranks #6,071 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with huracanes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | huracán |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [uɾaˈkãn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,071 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for huracán is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [uɾaˈkãn]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,071 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for huracán, with forms such as "hhuracán", "hruacán", and "huarcán". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "huracanes", 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 huracán, spelled H-U-R-A-C-Á-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Viento sumamente impetuoso y temible que, a modo de torbellino, gira en grandes círculos, cuyo diámetro crece a medida que avanzan apartándose de las zonas de calmas tropicales, donde suele tener orige.
- 2Viento de fuerza extraordinaria.
- 3Dicho de una persona: Impulsiva, impetuosa, que actúa con ímpetu.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhuracán,hruacán,huarcán,huraccán,huracná,huracánn,huraácn,hurcaán,hurracán,uhracán
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for huracán
Misspelling Variants of "huracán"
Frequency rank: #6,071 in Spanish
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