para
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#18
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
para is aSpanishprep. It means: Indica el objetivo o finalidad de la acción. Pronounced [ˈpaɾa]. It ranks #18 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with por and paz.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | para |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Prep |
| IPA | [ˈpaɾa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for para is 4 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpaɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #18 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 17 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for para, with forms such as "apra", "paar", and "ppara". 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, "por", "paz", "pro", 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 para, spelled P-A-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Indica el objetivo o finalidad de la acción.
- 2Indica el uso o destino que se le da a algo.
- 3Indica el destinatario de la acción.
- 4Indica aptitudes personales.
- 5Indica la dirección o destino del movimiento.
- 6Indica un plazo o tiempo futuro impreciso.
- 7Indica el tiempo que transcurre para la acción o que dura un estado o situación.
- 8Indica la consecuencia previsible de un desgaste.
- 9Indica que alguien o algo no está tan mal o malo como se podría suponer.
- 10Indica que algo no es adecuado o proporcionado con lo que le corresponde o sus circunstancias.
- 11Indica acumulación de contrariedades.
- 12Indica el último elemento de un cúmulo de contrariedades en frases hechas.
- 13Junto a un verbo indica que se está pronto a efectuar la acción.
- 14Con pronombres personales como "mí", "ti", "si" y ciertos verbos indica un acto íntimo, secreto o interno, que no se comunica hacia los demás.
- 15Con algunos nombres y verbos, quiere decir "comprar para", "entregar a", "regalar a".
- 16Indica una opinión.
- 17Indica la cantidad de minutos que faltan desde los 30 minutos hasta el minuto 59 de una hora para alcanzar la hora siguiente.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apra,paar,ppara,praa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for para
Misspelling Variants of "para"
Frequency rank: #18 in Spanish
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