puerta
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#755
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
puerta is aSpanishnoun. It means: Abertura practicada en una construcción, vehículo u otro objeto, por la cual se accede y abandona el mismo. Pronounced [ˈpweɾt̪a]. It ranks #755 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with puta and pura.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puerta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpweɾt̪a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #755 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for puerta is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpweɾt̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #755 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 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 puerta, with forms such as "peurta", "ppuerta", and "puerat". 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, "puta", "pura", "punta", 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 puerta, spelled P-U-E-R-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Abertura practicada en una construcción, vehículo u otro objeto, por la cual se accede y abandona el mismo.
- 2Armazón o estructura que, colocada en esta abertura, impide el paso.
- 3Meta que el deportista o un objeto deben atravesar para el desarrollo del juego.
- 4En general, vía de entrada o acceso a alguna cosa.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: peurta,ppuerta,puerat,puerrta,puertta,puetra,pureta,uperta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for puerta
Misspelling Variants of "puerta"
Frequency rank: #755 in Spanish
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