matraca
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#63,232
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
matraca is aSpanishnoun. It means: Instrumento compuesto por una lengüeta de madera y una base giratoria dotada de una serie de aspas, que al agitarse percuten sobre aquella produciendo un sonido rítmico. Pronounced [maˈt̪ɾaka].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | matraca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maˈt̪ɾaka] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,232 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for matraca is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maˈt̪ɾaka]. Corpus data places it at rank #63,232 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for matraca 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 matraca, spelled M-A-T-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 compuesto por una lengüeta de madera y una base giratoria dotada de una serie de aspas, que al agitarse percuten sobre aquella produciendo un sonido rítmico.
- 2Insistencia desagradable o penosa que un importuno muestra sobre un tema.
- 3Arma de fuego larga.
- 4Llave de rosca dotada de un garfio que impide que gire en dirección contraria a la deseada, usada para hacer girar un engranaje.
- 5Órgano que presenta el macho de los mamíferos, de forma eréctil, en el que desembocan los conductos del tracto génitourinario. En algunos animales se retrae en la ingle, y sólo se extiende durante la excreción y la cópula; en el ser humano no es retráctil. Está compuesto en su mayor parte por tejidos esponjosos, llamados cuerpos cavernosos, que al saturarse de sangre producen la erección.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #63,232 in Spanish
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