pera
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,975
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pera is aSpanishnoun. It means: Fruto del peral (Pyrus communis) y otras especies afines. Es un pomo suculento, de pulpa blanca y fina piel que va del verde claro al rojo intenso, cuya característica forma con un extremo más grue... Pronounced [ˈpeɾa]. Often confused with por and pro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pera |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpeɾa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #13,975 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pera is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpeɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #13,975 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 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 pera, with forms such as "epra", "pear", and "ppera". 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", "pro", "pri", 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 pera, spelled P-E-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fruto del peral (Pyrus communis) y otras especies afines. Es un pomo suculento, de pulpa blanca y fina piel que va del verde claro al rojo intenso, cuya característica forma con un extremo más grueso que el otro se denomina por antonomasia piriforme. Es uno de los frutos más cultivados en las regiones frías de Europa, junto con la manzana.
- 2Protuberancia hacia adelante del maxilar inferior de la mandíbula del ser humano.
- 3Utensilio piriforme empleado para bombear manualmente líquidos o aire.
- 4Lavativa, enema.
- 5Glándula mamaria.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epra,pear,ppera,prea
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "pera"
Frequency rank: #13,975 in Spanish
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