problema
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#250
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
problema is aSpanishnoun. It means: Asunto cuya solución se debe averiguar Pronounced [pɾoˈβ̞lema]. It ranks #250 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with proclama and problems.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | problema |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pɾoˈβ̞lema] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #250 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for problema is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pɾoˈβ̞lema]. Corpus data places it at rank #250 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for problema, with forms such as "porblema", "pproblema", and "prbolema". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "proclama", "problems", "problemas", 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 problema, spelled P-R-O-B-L-E-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Asunto cuya solución se debe averiguar
- 2En particular, problema₁ filosófico o científico del que debe obtenerse la solución por inferencia a partir de los datos disponibles o la observación sistemática
- 3Dificultad difícil de solucionar
- 4Conjunto de problemas₃ que impiden una tarea o cometido
- 5Abatimiento del ánimo causado por un problema_(3–4)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: porblema,pproblema,prbolema,probblema,probelma,probleam,problemma,probllema,problmea,prolbema,provlema,prroblema,rpoblema
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for problema
Misspelling Variants of "problema"
Frequency rank: #250 in Spanish
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