percha
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#37,253
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
percha is aSpanishnoun. It means: Útil de forma triangular que tiene un gancho en la parte superior, usado para colgar estirada una prenda de ropa. Pronounced [ˈpeɾt͡ʃa]. Often confused with pesca and perra.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | percha |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpeɾt͡ʃa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #37,253 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for percha is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpeɾt͡ʃa]. Corpus data places it at rank #37,253 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 14 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 percha, with forms such as "eprcha", "pecrha", and "percah". 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, "pesca", "perra", "Perla", 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 percha, spelled P-E-R-C-H-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Útil de forma triangular que tiene un gancho en la parte superior, usado para colgar estirada una prenda de ropa.
- 2Gancho adherido a una pared o a un mueble que permite colgar prendas de ropa.
- 3Mueble provisto de perchas.
- 4Madero o estaca larga y delgada, que regularmente se atraviesa en otras para sostener una cosa; como parras, etc.
- 5Acción o efecto de perchar el paño.
- 6Lazo de cazar perdices u otras aves.
- 7Especie de bandolera que usan los cazadores para colgar en ella las piezas que matan.
- 8Varal en donde se dejaban las aves de cetrería.
- 9Pescante de madera o hierro, de que los barberos cuelgan las bacías en la puerta de la tienda, como muestra de su oficio.
- 10Apariencia de una persona, sobre todo cuando es muy elegante o atractiva.
- 11Tronco enterizo de árbol, descortezado o no, que por su especial tamaño sirve para la construcción de piezas de arboladura, vergas, botalones, palancas, etc.
- 12Cualquiera de los maderos fijados por sus extremos a la serviola y al tajamar, brazal.
- 13Mujer soltera.
- 14Posada, casa.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eprcha,pecrha,percah,perccha,perchha,perhca,perrcha,ppercha,precha
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for percha
Misspelling Variants of "percha"
Frequency rank: #37,253 in Spanish
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