primera
[pɾiˈmeɾa]
The verdict
“primera” is in the everyday core of Spanish, ranked #177 in Spanish word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #177
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - De una sucesión de cosas la que ocurre o tiene lugar antes que las demás. Forma femenina de primero.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | primera |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [pɾiˈmeɾa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “primera” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for primera is 7 letters long, classified as an adjective, 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 generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for primera, with forms such as "pirmera", "pprimera", and "priemra". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is primera, spelled P-R-I-M-E-R-A.
Definition
- 1De una sucesión de cosas la que ocurre o tiene lugar antes que las demás. Forma femenina de primero.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: pirmera,pprimera,priemra,primear,primerra,primmera,primrea,prmiera,prrimera,rpimera
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of primera - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “primera”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-R-I-M-E-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [pɾiˈmeɾa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “primero” - see the side-by-side comparison. primera vs primero
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.