palanca
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,308
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
palanca is aSpanishnoun. It means: Máquina simple compuesta por una barra rígida que puede girar libremente alrededor de un punto de apoyo, o fulcro. Puede utilizarse para amplificar la fuerza mecánica que se aplica a un objeto, o p... Pronounced [paˈlãŋka]. Often confused with placa and plana.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palanca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [paˈlãŋka] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,308 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for palanca is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paˈlãŋka]. Corpus data places it at rank #13,308 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 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for palanca, with forms such as "aplanca", "paalnca", and "palacna". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "placa", "plana", "planta", 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 palanca, spelled P-A-L-A-N-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Máquina simple compuesta por una barra rígida que puede girar libremente alrededor de un punto de apoyo, o fulcro. Puede utilizarse para amplificar la fuerza mecánica que se aplica a un objeto, o para incrementar la distancia recorrida por un objeto en respuesta a la aplicación de una fuerza.
- 2Relación o influencia que se puede utilizar para provocar un cambio, obtener un favor, o una concesión.
- 3Persona con poder que favorece a alguien.
- 4Mozo ayudante del matarife o jifero.
- 5Arbusto de los climas calientes, cuya fruta, semejante a la ciruela, no es muy grata al paladar. El aroma de la flor es bastante repugnante.
- 6En albañilería; palo, a madera de porra, que sirve para machacar yeso.
- 7Viga que da movimiento a la báscula de un puente levadizo.
- 8Barra de hierro de unos 40 cm. de largo y 3 de grueso, con espiga perpendicular a ella en uno de sus extremos, para encajarla en el baco o en el mostrador y que pueda hacer así con ventaja el oficio de bigornia.
- 9Muletilla de bastante longitud que se emplea para fincar.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aplanca,paalnca,palacna,palanac,palancca,palannca,pallanca,palnaca,plaanca,ppalanca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "palanca"
Frequency rank: #13,308 in Spanish
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