madera
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,780
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
madera is aSpanishnoun. It means: Tejido duro, formado por fibras de celulosa incrustadas en una red de lignina, que forma la parte principal del tronco y ramaje de los árboles debajo de la corteza. Pronounced [maˈð̞eɾa]. It ranks #1,780 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with mera and mara.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | madera |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maˈð̞eɾa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for madera is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maˈð̞eɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,780 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 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 madera, with forms such as "amdera", "maddera", and "madear". 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, "mera", "mara", "madre", 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 madera, spelled M-A-D-E-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tejido duro, formado por fibras de celulosa incrustadas en una red de lignina, que forma la parte principal del tronco y ramaje de los árboles debajo de la corteza.
- 2Del color del árbol.
- 3Pieza de madera₁, usada como material de construcción o combustible.
- 4Sustancia córnea, análoga a la de las uñas, que forma el casco de los caballos y otros rumiantes.
- 5Figurativamente, inclinación natural de una persona para una determinada actividad u oficio.
- 6Instrumento musical de viento, de sonido típicamente dulce en comparación con los metales, fabricados originalmente de madera₁.
- 7Cuerpo de la policía nacional española.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amdera,maddera,madear,maderra,madrea,maedra,mdaera,mmadera
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "madera"
Frequency rank: #1,780 in Spanish
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