presa
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,824
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
presa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción de prender o tomar una cosa. Pronounced [ˈpɾesa]. It ranks #4,824 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with pues and proa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | presa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpɾesa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for presa is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpɾesa]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,824 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 generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for presa, with forms such as "ppresa", "preas", and "pressa". 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, "pues", "proa", "pros", 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 presa, spelled P-R-E-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción de prender o tomar una cosa.
- 2Cosa apresada o robada.
- 3Organismo que puede ser cazado o pescado.
- 4Mujer presa, sin libertad.
- 5Acequia.
- 6Muro grueso construido en un río o similar, para contener o detener el curso del agua.
- 7Conducto por donde se lleva el agua para dar movimiento a las ruedas de los molinos u otras máquinas hidráulicas.
- 8Tajada, pedazo o porción pequeña de una cosa comestible.
- 9Cada uno de los colmillos o dientes agudos y grandes que tienen en ambas quijadas algunos animales, con los cuales agarran lo que muerden, con tal fuerza, que con gran dificultad lo sueltan.
- 10Ave prendida por halcón u otra ave de rapiña.
- 11Uña del halcón u otra ave de rapiña.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ppresa,preas,pressa,prresa,prsea,rpesa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for presa
Misspelling Variants of "presa"
Frequency rank: #4,824 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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