pirca
Letters
5 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
pirca is aSpanishnoun. It means: Tapia de piedras calzadas (unidas sin argamasa), de poca altura, usada en el imperio incaico y aún hoy para muros rurales. Pronounced [ˈpiɾka].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pirca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpiɾka] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for pirca is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpiɾka]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for pirca 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 pirca, spelled P-I-R-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tapia de piedras calzadas (unidas sin argamasa), de poca altura, usada en el imperio incaico y aún hoy para muros rurales.
- 2Tapia de poca altura, hecha de piedra y barro, construida para separar los lotes de terrenos de diferentes propietarios o impedir el paso del ganado al lote vecino.
- 3Señal de piedra para indicar distancias, linderos, etc.
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