primera

/[pɾiˈmeɾa]/ adj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#177

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

14

similar word pairs

primera is anSpanishadj. It means: De una sucesión de cosas la que ocurre o tiene lugar antes que las demás. Forma femenina de primero. Pronounced [pɾiˈmeɾa]. It ranks #177 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with primero and promesa.

Key facts for primera
PropertyValue
Headwordprimera
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechAdj
IPA[pɾiˈmeɾa]
Letters7
Frequency rank#177
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of primera in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for primera is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pɾiˈmeɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #177 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "De una sucesión de cosas la que ocurre o tiene lugar antes que las demás. Forma femenina de primero.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for primera, with forms such as "pirmera", "pprimera", and "priemra". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "primero", "promesa", "prometa", 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 primera, spelled P-R-I-M-E-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    De una sucesión de cosas la que ocurre o tiene lugar antes que las demás. Forma femenina de primero.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: pirmera,pprimera,priemra,primear,primerra,primmera,primrea,prmiera,prrimera,rpimera

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for primera

Misspelling Variants of "primera"

pirmera7pprimera8priemra7primear7primerra8primmera8primrea7prmiera7
Misspelling Variants of "primera"

Frequency rank: #177 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "primera"?
"primera" is spelled P-R-I-M-E-R-A. The IPA pronunciation is [pɾiˈmeɾa].
What does "primera" mean?
As an adj, "primera" means: De una sucesión de cosas la que ocurre o tiene lugar antes que las demás. Forma femenina de primero.
What words are commonly confused with "primera"?
"primera" is commonly confused with "primero", "promesa", "prometa". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "primera"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "primera" is [pɾiˈmeɾa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "primera" come from?
"primera" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.