palma
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,946
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
palma is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Arecaceae, sin. Palmae) Cualquiera de casi 3000 especies de plantas monocotiledóneas, distribuidas en áreas cálidas y templadas de todo el globo, normalmente arborescentes, características por su ... Pronounced [ˈpalma]. It ranks #3,946 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with pam and para.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palma |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpalma] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,946 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for palma is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpalma]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,946 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 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 palma, with forms such as "aplma", "palam", and "pallma". 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, "pam", "para", "pasa", 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 palma, spelled P-A-L-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Arecaceae, sin. Palmae) Cualquiera de casi 3000 especies de plantas monocotiledóneas, distribuidas en áreas cálidas y templadas de todo el globo, normalmente arborescentes, características por su tronco recto y no ramificado, llamado estípite, y una corona de hojas pinnadas o palmadas que brota del ápice del mismo. Son apreciadas como ornamentales, y muchas especies tienen valor económico.
- 2Hoja de estas plantas, usada en cestería por su resistencia.
- 3En particular, hoja de palma₁ que los antiguos romanos entregaban a los vencedores en contiendas deportivas o militares como símbolo de victoria, y los judíos y paleocristianos empleaban en sus ceremonias religiosas.
- 4Por extensión, reconocimiento generalizado de las virtudes o méritos una persona.
- 5Parte de la mano hacia la que se flexionan los dedos.
- 6Golpe dado con la palma₅.
- 7Por extensión, parte análoga de la pezuña o casco del ganado.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aplma,palam,pallma,palmma,pamla,plama,ppalma
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Misspelling Variants of "palma"
Frequency rank: #3,946 in Spanish
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