raza
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,266
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
raza is aSpanishnoun. It means: Grupo que se distingue por una ascendencia común. Pronounced [ˈrasa]. It ranks #2,266 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with ría and Roa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raza |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈrasa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,266 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for raza is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈrasa]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,266 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for raza, with forms such as "arza", "raaz", and "razza". 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", "Roa", "Rea", 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 raza, spelled R-A-Z-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Grupo que se distingue por una ascendencia común.
- 2En particular, grupo que, dentro de una especie, muestra caracteres biológicos distintivos transmitidos genéticamente.
- 3Por extensión, cualquier población con características comunes y distintivas.
- 4Grupo o linaje de individuos de una especie que muestran características morfológicas distintivas como resultado del aislamiento natural o la selección artificial.
- 5Población de una especie indistinguible morfológicamente, pero que presenta comportamientos distintivos, en especial la propensión a parasitar o infectar determinados huéspedes.
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: arza,raaz,razza,rraza,rzaa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for raza
Misspelling Variants of "raza"
Frequency rank: #2,266 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter R in our Spanish index: