quimera
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,532
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
quimera is aSpanishnoun. It means: Animal fantástico con cabeza de león, cuerpo de cabra y cola de dragón, y que según la fábula vomitaba llamas. Pronounced [kiˈmeɾa]. Often confused with química and quitará.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quimera |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kiˈmeɾa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #28,532 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for quimera is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kiˈmeɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #28,532 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for quimera, with forms such as "qiumera", "qquimera", and "quiemra". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "química", "quitará", "quisiera", 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 quimera, spelled Q-U-I-M-E-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Animal fantástico con cabeza de león, cuerpo de cabra y cola de dragón, y que según la fábula vomitaba llamas.
- 2Creación imaginaria o improbable del espíritu; aquello que se cree verdadero o posible pero que en realidad no lo es.
- 3Cualquiera de las especies de peces cartilaginosos pertenecientes al orden de los quimeriformes (Chimaeriformes).
- 4Animal disecado u otros restos cuidadosamente compuestos con diversas partes de varias especies animales diferentes y que se intentan hacer pasar por los de una especie real.^([cita requerida]).
- 5Disputa que se da entre dos o más personas o grupos de personas.
- 6Ser vivo, afectado por quimerismo, que posee dos tipos de células diferentes, cada una con distinta constitución genética.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: qiumera,qquimera,quiemra,quimear,quimerra,quimmera,quimrea,qumiera,uqimera
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Misspelling Variants of "quimera"
Frequency rank: #28,532 in Spanish
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