posta
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,345
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
posta is aSpanishnoun. It means: Grupo de caballos que se ubicaba en determinados lugares de los caminos para el relevo de los correos o de las diligencias en sus viajes. Pronounced [ˈpost̪a]. It ranks #5,345 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with pot and puta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | posta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpost̪a] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,345 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for posta is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpost̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,345 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for posta, with forms such as "opsta", "posat", and "possta". 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, "pot", "puta", "poza", 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 posta, spelled P-O-S-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Grupo de caballos que se ubicaba en determinados lugares de los caminos para el relevo de los correos o de las diligencias en sus viajes.
- 2Lugar donde estaban estos grupos de caballos y donde los correos o las diligencias a veces hacían paradas.
- 3Distancia entre una y otra posta₁.
- 4Establecimiento médico en que se realiza atención primaria y controles de rutina de los miembros de una comunidad.
- 5Bala de plomo pequeña para cargar algunas armas de fuego.
- 6Trozo o tajada de carne, de pollo o de pescado.
- 7Corte de carne de vacuno que se obtiene de la parte inferior de los cuartos traseros.
- 8Cantidad de dinero que se pone sobre la mesa en un juego de apuestas.
- 9Dibujo ornamental con curvas onduladas que se emplea para espacios de mucha longitud.
- 10Cartel o letrero conmemorativo.
- 11Verdad.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opsta,posat,possta,postta,potsa,pposta,psota
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for posta
Misspelling Variants of "posta"
Frequency rank: #5,345 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter P in our Spanish index: