primera
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | primera |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [pɾiˈmeɾa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1De 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"
Frequency rank: #177 in Spanish
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