prima
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,284
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
prima is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cantidad de dinero que se da a alguien como incentivo a cambio de cumplir ciertas condiciones en un trabajo. Pronounced [ˈpɾima]. It ranks #3,284 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with puma and proa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prima |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpɾima] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,284 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for prima is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpɾima]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,284 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 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 prima, with forms such as "pirma", "pprima", and "priam". 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, "puma", "proa", "primo", 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 prima, spelled P-R-I-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cantidad de dinero que se da a alguien como incentivo a cambio de cumplir ciertas condiciones en un trabajo.
- 2Cantidad de dinero que hay que pagar a un seguro.
- 3En los instrumentos de cuerda, la más delgada y de tonalidad más alta.
- 4En la antigua Roma, la parte del día entre la salida del sol y la media mañana.
- 5En el horario monacal, la hora de la segunda plegaria diaria, rezada al despuntar la mañana.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: pirma,pprima,priam,primma,prmia,prrima,rpima
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for prima
Misspelling Variants of "prima"
Frequency rank: #3,284 in Spanish
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