porra
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,880
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
porra is aSpanishnoun. It means: Palo grueso y de diámetro creciente hacia la punta, usado como arma. Pronounced [ˈpora]. Often confused with pura and port.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | porra |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpora] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #28,880 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for porra is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpora]. Corpus data places it at rank #28,880 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for porra, with forms such as "oprra", "porar", and "pporra". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pura", "port", "proa", 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 porra, spelled P-O-R-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Palo grueso y de diámetro creciente hacia la punta, usado como arma.
- 2En particular, aquel relativamente corto que emplean como arma o señal las fuerzas de seguridad.
- 3Martillo de cabeza simétrica usado con las dos manos.
- 4Bollo frito de masa similar a la del churro, pero con más levadura, lo que le da volumen.
- 5Apuesta colectiva, en que el ganador lleva todo el fondo.
- 6Grupo ruidoso de manifestantes en pro o en contra en algún evento público.
- 7Vocerío o barullo que produce una porra₆.
- 8Persona importuna o molesta.
- 9Vicio del carácter, por el que una persona muestra una opinión exageradamente buena de sí misma.
- 10Órgano eréctil que presenta el macho de los mamíferos, homólogo del clítoris femenino, en el que desembocan los conductos del tracto genitourinario. En algunos animales se retrae en la ingle, y sólo se extiende durante la excreción y la cópula; en el ser humano no es retráctil. Está compuesto en su mayor parte por tejidos esponjosos, llamados cuerpos cavernosos, que al saturarse de sangre producen la erección.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oprra,porar,pporra,prora
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for porra
Misspelling Variants of "porra"
Frequency rank: #28,880 in Spanish
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