locura
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,454
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
locura is aSpanishnoun. It means: Trastorno de la razón, desorden mental, generalmente endógeno, que hace que un individuo actúe en contra de las exigencias o necesidades sociales y legales de la sociedad en la que vive. Pronounced [loˈkuɾa]. It ranks #2,454 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with logra and locus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | locura |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [loˈkuɾa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,454 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for locura is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [loˈkuɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,454 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 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 locura, with forms such as "lcoura", "llocura", and "loccura". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "logra", "locus", "locuras", 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 locura, spelled L-O-C-U-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Trastorno de la razón, desorden mental, generalmente endógeno, que hace que un individuo actúe en contra de las exigencias o necesidades sociales y legales de la sociedad en la que vive.
- 2Acto temerario, desatinado, imprudente.
- 3Acción extravagante, sorprendente, fuera de lo normal.
- 4Pasión desmedida, cariño sin límites.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lcoura,llocura,loccura,locrua,locuar,locurra,loucra,olcura
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for locura
Misspelling Variants of "locura"
Frequency rank: #2,454 in Spanish
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