perca

/[ˈpeɾka]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

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perca is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Percidae) Cualquiera de los peces teleósteos de agua dulce de la familia Percidae. Pronounced [ˈpeɾka].

Key facts for perca
PropertyValue
Headwordperca
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈpeɾka]
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

perca is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for perca is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpeɾka]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for perca in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 perca, spelled P-E-R-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Percidae) Cualquiera de los peces teleósteos de agua dulce de la familia Percidae.
  2. 2
    (Perca fluviatilis) Pez teleósteo de río, del suborden de los acantopterigios, que llega a tener sesenta centímetros de largo, de cuerpo oblongo, cubierto de escamas duras y ásperas, verdoso en el lomo, plateado en el vientre y dorado con seis o siete fajas negruzcas en los costados. Es comestible, aunque generalmente es menos apreciado que el salmón al ser un pez rastrero.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "perca"?
"perca" is spelled P-E-R-C-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈpeɾka].
What does "perca" mean?
As a noun, "perca" means: (Percidae) Cualquiera de los peces teleósteos de agua dulce de la familia Percidae.
How do you pronounce "perca"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "perca" is [ˈpeɾka]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "perca" come from?
"perca" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.