maraca
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#56,462
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
maraca is aSpanishnoun. It means: Instrumento musical de percusión, formado por un recipiente hueco elaborado a partir de un fruto leñoso o de material plástico, dentro del cual se introducen cuentas, y que se agita para marcar el ... Pronounced [maˈɾaka].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maraca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maˈɾaka] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for maraca is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maˈɾaka]. Corpus data places it at rank #56,462 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for maraca in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 maraca, spelled M-A-R-A-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrumento musical de percusión, formado por un recipiente hueco elaborado a partir de un fruto leñoso o de material plástico, dentro del cual se introducen cuentas, y que se agita para marcar el compás.
- 2Billete de un peso cubano.
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Frequency rank: #56,462 in Spanish
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