mosca
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,712
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mosca is aSpanishnoun. It means: Nombre que se da a numerosos insectos voladores de la familia de los múscidos, que poseen dos alas transparentes, y un aparato bucal chupador o uno punzante. Pronounced [ˈmoska]. Often confused with mota and musa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mosca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmoska] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #10,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mosca is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmoska]. Corpus data places it at rank #10,712 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for mosca, with forms such as "mmosca", "mocsa", and "mosac". 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, "mota", "musa", "Moya", 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 mosca, spelled M-O-S-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nombre que se da a numerosos insectos voladores de la familia de los múscidos, que poseen dos alas transparentes, y un aparato bucal chupador o uno punzante.
- 2Barba pequeña que se deja sólo bajo el labio inferior y que no incluye el mentón.
- 3Cebo artificial que simula una mosca, usado con la caña de pescar.
- 4Persona desagradable y molesta.
- 5Dinero.
- 6Disgusto, molestia.
- 7Pasajero clandestino que viaja agarrándose de las partes exteriores de un vehículo.
- 8Guardaespaldas o escolta.
- 9Logotipo de un canal de televisión, que suele situarse en algún rincón de la pantalla, para que estorbe menos.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmosca,mocsa,mosac,moscca,mossca,msoca,omsca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "mosca"
Frequency rank: #10,712 in Spanish
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