prosa
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,845
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
prosa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Forma textual que, en oposición al verso, no está regida explícitamente por cánones métricos y rítmicos. Pronounced [ˈpɾosa]. Often confused with prov and puros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prosa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpɾosa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,845 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for prosa is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpɾosa]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,845 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 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 prosa, with forms such as "porsa", "pprosa", and "proas". 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, "prov", "puros", "proxy", 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 prosa, spelled P-R-O-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Forma textual que, en oposición al verso, no está regida explícitamente por cánones métricos y rítmicos.
- 2Lenguaje que se recita o enuncia sin artificios canoros o vocales, especialmente en una circunstancia o ceremonia en que predomina la forma cantada.
- 3Parte más vulgar o coloquial de algo.
- 4Espaciado que se deja horizontalmente entre dos caracteres en la composición, y que en la mayoría de los tipos varía de acuerdo a la naturaleza y forma de los caracteres adyacentes. En la tipografía propia de las máquinas de escribir o de las terminales de computadora la prosa es igual sin importar el ancho del caracter, llamándose monoespaciado.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: porsa,pprosa,proas,prossa,prrosa,prsoa,rposa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for prosa
Misspelling Variants of "prosa"
Frequency rank: #11,845 in Spanish
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