prensa
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,000
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
prensa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Máquina que sirve para comprimir o apretar, y cuya forma varía según los usos a que se aplica; como estrujar, imprimir, estampar, etc. Pronounced [ˈpɾẽnsa]. It ranks #1,000 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with presa and press.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prensa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpɾẽnsa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for prensa is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpɾẽnsa]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,000 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 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 prensa, with forms such as "pernsa", "pprensa", and "prenas". 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, "presa", "press", "prisa", 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 prensa, spelled P-R-E-N-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Máquina que sirve para comprimir o apretar, y cuya forma varía según los usos a que se aplica; como estrujar, imprimir, estampar, etc.
- 2Imprenta, y especialmente la periódica.
- 3Conjunto de medios de comunicación masiva destinados a la información pública o a las noticias.
- 4Conjunto de los individuos que se dedican a la información pública a través de medios de comunicación masiva (los periodistas).
- 5Pila de cosas puestas unas sobre otras.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: pernsa,pprensa,prenas,prennsa,prenssa,presna,prnesa,prrensa,rpensa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for prensa
Misspelling Variants of "prensa"
Frequency rank: #1,000 in Spanish
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