inga
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#44,796
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
inga is aSpanishnoun. It means: Inca. Pronounced [ˈĩŋga]. Often confused with ira and IVA.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inga |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈĩŋga] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #44,796 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for inga is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈĩŋga]. Corpus data places it at rank #44,796 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 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 inga, with forms such as "inag", "ingga", and "innga". 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 inga, spelled I-N-G-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Inca.
- 2Árbol nativo americano de la familia Mimosoideae.
- 3Pueblo indígena colombiano de habla quechua ubicado en los departamentos de Putumayo, Nariño y el Cauca.
- 4Lengua de la familia quechua hablada por el pueblo quichua del río Pastaza.
- 5Por extensión, persona de ascendencia amerindia o de la sierra del Perú.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: inag,ingga,innga,niga
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for inga
Misspelling Variants of "inga"
Frequency rank: #44,796 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter I in our Spanish index: