rabia
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,374
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
rabia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Enfermedad infecciosa del sistema nervioso, producida por un virus que provoca una encefalitis aguda que resulta fatal, salvo que se trate antes de la aparición de los síntomas en el período inmedi... Pronounced [ˈraβ̞ja]. It ranks #4,374 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with ría and Rai.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rabia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈraβ̞ja] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,374 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for rabia is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈraβ̞ja]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,374 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for rabia, with forms such as "arbia", "rabai", and "rabbia". 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, "ría", "Rai", "raza", 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 rabia, spelled R-A-B-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Enfermedad infecciosa del sistema nervioso, producida por un virus que provoca una encefalitis aguda que resulta fatal, salvo que se trate antes de la aparición de los síntomas en el período inmediatamente posterior a la infección. Afecta a varias especies de animales, en especial carnívoros y roedores, y al ser humano, y en muchos países es una causa importante de muertes.
- 2Sensación persistente y aguda de ira o fuerte enfado.
- 3Roya que afecta a veces al garbanzo cuando se expone al sol estando mojado (por la lluvia, al rociarlo, etc.).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: arbia,rabai,rabbia,raiba,ravia,rbaia,rrabia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rabia
Misspelling Variants of "rabia"
Frequency rank: #4,374 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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