oreja
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,332
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
oreja is aSpanishnoun. It means: Estructura cartilaginosa (compuesta de piel y cartílago) que forma la parte externa del oído del hombre y algunos animales. Pronounced [oˈɾexa]. It ranks #7,332 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with ósea and oreo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oreja |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [oˈɾexa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,332 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for oreja is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [oˈɾexa]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,332 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 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 oreja, with forms such as "oerja", "oreaj", and "orejja". 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, "ósea", "oreo", "oren", 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 oreja, spelled O-R-E-J-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Estructura cartilaginosa (compuesta de piel y cartílago) que forma la parte externa del oído del hombre y algunos animales.
- 2Oído.
- 3Asa de una taza u otro recipiente.
- 4Porción de masa de maíz, mezclada con sal, generalmente manteca y a veces otros condimentos como epazote, y se incluye en muchos caldos y guisados de la cocina mexicana.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oerja,oreaj,orejja,orjea,orreja,roeja
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for oreja
Misspelling Variants of "oreja"
Frequency rank: #7,332 in Spanish
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