marcha
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,020
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
marcha is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción de marchar. Pronounced [ˈmaɾt͡ʃa]. It ranks #1,020 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with mucha and María.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marcha |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmaɾt͡ʃa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for marcha is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmaɾt͡ʃa]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,020 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for marcha, with forms such as "amrcha", "macrha", and "marcah". 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, "mucha", "María", "marco", 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 marcha, spelled M-A-R-C-H-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción de marchar.
- 2Hoguera de leña que se hace en la Rioja a las puertas de las casas cómo señal de regocijo.
- 3Grado de celeridad en el andar de un buque.
- 4Orden de marcha₁.
- 5Toque de caja o de clarín para que marche la tropa o para hacer los honores supremos militares.
- 6Pieza de música, de carácter solemne y de ritmo muy determinado, destinada a regularizar la marcha de la tropa o de un numeroso cortejo.
- 7Cada una de las numerosas combinaciones de engranajes del vehículo, que dan como resultado distinto par y distinta velocidad máxima para cada una.
- 8Prueba atlética que consiste en recorrer una determinada distancia marchando, esto es, caminando lo más rápido que se pueda, sin llegar a correr (levantar los dos pies del suelo al mismo tiempo se considera falta).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amrcha,macrha,marcah,marccha,marchha,marhca,marrcha,mmarcha,mracha
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for marcha
Misspelling Variants of "marcha"
Frequency rank: #1,020 in Spanish
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