marea
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,022
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
marea is aSpanishnoun. It means: Ascenso o flujo del agua que da lugar a la pleamar y descenso o reflujo que motiva la bajamar. Es un fenómeno que ocurre dos veces al día, ocasionado por la atracción gravitatoria de la Luna y del ... Pronounced [maˈɾea]. It ranks #8,022 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Mea and masa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marea |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maˈɾea] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,022 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for marea is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maˈɾea]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,022 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 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for marea, with forms such as "amrea", "maera", and "marae". 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, "Mea", "masa", "mata", 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 marea, spelled M-A-R-E-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ascenso o flujo del agua que da lugar a la pleamar y descenso o reflujo que motiva la bajamar. Es un fenómeno que ocurre dos veces al día, ocasionado por la atracción gravitatoria de la Luna y del Sol.
- 2Agua que sube en la pleamar y baja en la bajamar.
- 3Franja costera que queda descubierta en la bajamar y vuelve a ser cubierta por el agua en la pleamar.
- 4Resultado de la labor de pesca de una jornada.
- 5Brisa que sopla desde el mar hacia tierra.
- 6Viento que sopla en los cauces de cursos de agua dulce y barrancos.
- 7Muchedumbre de gente que aparece en un lugar.
- 8Lluvia tenue, corta y pasajera.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amrea,maera,marae,marrea,mmarea,mraea
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for marea
Misspelling Variants of "marea"
Frequency rank: #8,022 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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