parche
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,195
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
parche is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pedazo de material flexible y ligero, como el papel, el cuero o algún plástico, que se usa para tapar agujeros, unir desgarros de un material o reforzarlo. Pronounced [ˈpaɾt͡ʃe]. Often confused with pare and parte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parche |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpaɾt͡ʃe] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,195 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for parche is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpaɾt͡ʃe]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,195 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for parche, with forms such as "aprche", "pacrhe", and "parcche". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "pare", "parte", "patch", 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 parche, spelled P-A-R-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pedazo de material flexible y ligero, como el papel, el cuero o algún plástico, que se usa para tapar agujeros, unir desgarros de un material o reforzarlo.
- 2Tela adhesiva con un medicamento para aplicar sobre la piel.
- 3Retoque mal hecho a una pintura, que la afea en lugar de mejorarla como era la intención.
- 4Cualquier arreglo mal hecho, pegado o sobrepuesto que afea una obra.
- 5Cada una de las dos pieles del tambor ubicadas en extremos opuestos, y sobre una de las cuales se golpea para hacerlo sonar.
- 6Instrumento de percusión con dos parches que se golpea con las manos o un pequeño bastón.
- 7Solución transitoria, que no puede perdurar en el tiempo.
- 8Software destinado a corregir una vulnerabilidad de un programa o de un sistema operativo.
- 9Trozo aislado o separado de algo mayor.
- 10Grupo de amigos al cual se es muy afecto.
- 11Grupo de muchachos unidos por el consumo de drogas, que usan armas blancas para cometer atracos o participar en riñas callejeras.
- 12Programa, plan, actividad que hace uno con sus amigos.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aprche,pacrhe,parcche,parceh,parchhe,parhce,parrche,pparche,prache
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for parche
Misspelling Variants of "parche"
Frequency rank: #14,195 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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