inca
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,066
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
inca is aSpanishnoun. It means: Monarca o jefe supremo, considerado hijo del Sol, que gobernaba un vasto imperio precolombino en América del Sur, con capital en el Cuzco. El lenguaje simbólico con que el Inca se dirigía a las mas... Pronounced [ˈĩŋka]. Often confused with ira and IVA.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈĩŋka] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #11,066 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for inca is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈĩŋka]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,066 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for inca, with forms such as "icna", "inac", and "incca". 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, "ira", "IVA", "isa", 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 inca, spelled I-N-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Monarca o jefe supremo, considerado hijo del Sol, que gobernaba un vasto imperio precolombino en América del Sur, con capital en el Cuzco. El lenguaje simbólico con que el Inca se dirigía a las masas poseía implicancias mesiánicas vinculadas al mito de Inkarrí, gracias al cual no se mostraba solamente como rey y soberano legítimo, sino también como redentor, restaurador del mundo y salvador de los indígenas.
- 2Por extensión, cada uno de los miembros de la tribu primitiva que fundó dicho imperio (panaca o ayllu real).
- 3Moneda de la República del Perú durante la década de 1880.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: icna,inac,incca,innca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "inca"
Frequency rank: #11,066 in Spanish
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