quema
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,348
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
quema is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de quemar. Pronounced [ˈkema]. It ranks #6,348 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Quim and quizá.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quema |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkema] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,348 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for quema is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkema]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,348 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for quema, with forms such as "qeuma", "qquema", and "queam". 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, "Quim", "quizá", "queso", 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 quema, spelled Q-U-E-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de quemar.
- 2Combustión completa de los residuos o materia orgánica hasta su conversión en cenizas.
- 3Lugar destinado para la quema.
- 4Situación económica desastrosa.
- 5En el juego de las canicas, acción de darle con una canica propia a una del contrario y sacarla fuera del área de juego, sumando puntos.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: qeuma,qquema,queam,quemma,qumea,uqema
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for quema
Misspelling Variants of "quema"
Frequency rank: #6,348 in Spanish
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