polla
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,568
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
polla is aSpanishnoun. It means: Hembra del pollo. Pronounced [ˈpoʝa]. It ranks #8,568 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with polo and popa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | polla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpoʝa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,568 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for polla is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpoʝa]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,568 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 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 polla, with forms such as "oplla", "plola", and "polal". 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, "polo", "popa", "pool", 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 polla, spelled P-O-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Hembra del pollo.
- 2Apuesta, principalmente la que se hace en una carrera de caballos.
- 3Carrera de caballos donde ocurre una polla₂.
- 4Juego público de azar, en que se dan a la venta billetes numerados de los cuales se premian varios.
- 5Pene.
- 6Apunte que se lleva a los exámenes para copiar.
- 7Bebida hecha con leche, huevos y canela, y a la que a veces se le añade licor.
- 8Flema causada por la irritación de los bronquios, que se libera por la tos.
- 9Mujer joven.
- 10Cantidad que el perdedor de una mano debe adelantar para la siguiente en algunos juegos de naipes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oplla,plola,polal,ppolla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for polla
Misspelling Variants of "polla"
Frequency rank: #8,568 in Spanish
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