puerca
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#44,949
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
puerca is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cada una de las crestas que aparecen entre los surcos de la tierra arada. Pronounced [ˈpweɾka]. Often confused with pura and purga.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puerca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpweɾka] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #44,949 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for puerca is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpweɾka]. Corpus data places it at rank #44,949 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for puerca, with forms such as "peurca", "ppuerca", and "puecra". 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, "pura", "purga", "puerta", 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 puerca, spelled P-U-E-R-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cada una de las crestas que aparecen entre los surcos de la tierra arada.
- 2Pieza del pernio o gozne en donde está el anillo.
- 3Escrófula.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: peurca,ppuerca,puecra,puerac,puercca,puerrca,pureca,uperca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for puerca
Misspelling Variants of "puerca"
Frequency rank: #44,949 in Spanish
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