meta
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,619
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
meta is aSpanishnoun. It means: Lugar o línea final indicados para una carrera (competencia de velocidad). Pronounced [ˈmet̪a]. It ranks #2,619 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with mia and mit.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmet̪a] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for meta is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmet̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,619 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for meta, with forms such as "emta", "meat", and "metta". 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, "mia", "mit", "meu", 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 meta, spelled M-E-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lugar o línea final indicados para una carrera (competencia de velocidad).
- 2Línea más allá de la cual hay que pasar el balón para marcar un punto (hacer un gol).
- 3Objetivo o fin explícito al cual se encaminan los deseos, aspiraciones o acciones de alguien.
- 4Pilar en forma de cono que indicaba, en las carreras del circo romano, cada extremo de una espina (muro bajo alrededor del cual giraban los carros o caballos). La carrera empezaba y terminaba en la primera meta.
- 5Objeto de base ancha y circular que va disminuyendo gradualmente desde la base hasta lo alto, como un cono. Se parece a un torpedo o una bala.^([cita requerida])
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emta,meat,metta,mmeta,mtea
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for meta
Misspelling Variants of "meta"
Frequency rank: #2,619 in Spanish
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