quema
[ˈkema]
The verdict
“quema” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #6,348. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,348
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 364
- “Q” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acción o efecto de quemar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-quema · quema · Spanish
quema · rank #6,348 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,348
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 364
- PHOTO-FINISH pudimos
Nearest frequency peer: pudimos (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “quema”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- proveedor
proveedor
93,656 corpus weight
- proyección
proyección
93,655 corpus weight
- pudimos
pudimos
93,654 corpus weight
- quema
quema
93,653 corpus weight
- rata
rata
93,652 corpus weight
- ray
ray
93,651 corpus weight
What this shows “quema” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| 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) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “quema”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around quema (IPA [ˈkema]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,348 among 364 “Q” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for quema, with forms such as "qeuma", "qquema", and "queam". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Quim", "quizá", "queso", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is quema, spelled Q-U-E-M-A.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how quema appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Los primeros ñates me fallaron lejos Tal vez de apurado, tal vez de chambón Hasta que un buen día, te pegué una quema En el mismo medio de tu corazón
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qeuma
- qquema
- queam
- quemma
- qumea
- uqema
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quema - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).