quería
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#777
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
quería is aSpanishverb. It means: Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de querer. Pronounced [keˈɾia]. It ranks #777 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Quero and quiera.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quería |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [keˈɾia] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #777 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for quería is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [keˈɾia]. Corpus data places it at rank #777 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 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 quería, with forms such as "qeuría", "qquería", and "queraí". 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, "Quero", "quiera", "querrá", 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 quería, spelled Q-U-E-R-Í-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de querer.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de querer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: qeuría,qquería,queraí,queíra,qureía,uqería
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for quería
Misspelling Variants of "quería"
Frequency rank: #777 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter Q in our Spanish index: