quinta
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,954
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
quinta is aSpanishnoun. It means: Finca rural, sobre la cual los arrendatarios pagaban un canon de una quinta₁ parte de la cosecha. Pronounced [ˈkĩn̪t̪a]. It ranks #3,954 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with quizá and quita.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quinta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkĩn̪t̪a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,954 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for quinta is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkĩn̪t̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,954 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 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 quinta, with forms such as "qiunta", "qquinta", and "quinat". 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, "quizá", "quita", "Quito", 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 quinta, spelled Q-U-I-N-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Finca rural, sobre la cual los arrendatarios pagaban un canon de una quinta₁ parte de la cosecha.
- 2Por extensión, finca rural de pequeño tamaño destinada a la agricultura.
- 3Por extensión, casa rodeada de jardines.
- 4Acción o efecto de quintar.
- 5Por extensión, cada camada de reclutas que se quinta o sortea en un determinado año.
- 6Por metonimia, año de nacimiento.
- 7En el juego de naipes de los cientos, conjunto de cinco naipes consecutivos del mismo palo.
- 8Quinta₁ marcha de la transmisión de un automóvil.
- 9Intervalo de siete semitonos, que cubre cinco notas de la escala.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: qiunta,qquinta,quinat,quinnta,quintta,quitna,qunita,uqinta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for quinta
Misspelling Variants of "quinta"
Frequency rank: #3,954 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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