raza
[ˈrasa]
The verdict
“raza” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #2,266 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #2,266
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4
- letters
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Grupo que se distingue por una ascendencia común.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| 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) |
Where “raza” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for raza is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for raza, with forms such as "arza", "raaz", and "razza". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ría", "Roa", "Rea", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is raza, spelled R-A-Z-A.
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
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: arza,raaz,razza,rraza,rzaa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of raza - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “raza”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is R-A-Z-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈrasa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “ría” - see the side-by-side comparison. raza vs ría
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.