reserva
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,422
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
reserva is aSpanishnoun. It means: Guarda o custodia que se hace de una cosa, o prevención de ella para que sirva a su tiempo. Pronounced [reˈseɾβ̞a]. It ranks #2,422 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with reversa and reserve.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reserva |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [reˈseɾβ̞a] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,422 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for reserva is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [reˈseɾβ̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,422 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 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for reserva, with forms such as "erserva", "recerva", and "reesrva". 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, "reversa", "reserve", "reservo", 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 reserva, spelled R-E-S-E-R-V-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Guarda o custodia que se hace de una cosa, o prevención de ella para que sirva a su tiempo.
- 2Reservación o excepción.
- 3Prevención o cautela para no descubrir algo que se sabe o piensa.
- 4Discreción, circunspección, comedimiento.
- 5Acción de reservar solemnemente el Santísimo Sacramento.
- 6Parte del ejército o armada de una nación, que no está en servicio activo, sino en sus hogares.
- 7Cuerpo de tropas de tierra o mar, que no toma parte en una campaña o en una batalla hasta que se considera necesario o conveniente su auxilio.
- 8Declaración que hace el juez de que la resolución que dicta no perjudicará algún derecho, el cual deja a salvo para que se ejercite en otro juicio o de diverso modo.
- 9Obligación impuesta por la ley al viudo que se vuelve a casar o al adquirente por título sucesorio, en circunstancias determinadas, de reservar ciertos bienes para transmitirlos, en su tiempo y caso, a ciertas personas.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erserva,recerva,reesrva,reserav,reserba,reserrva,reservva,resevra,resreva,resserva,rreserva,rseerva
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for reserva
Misspelling Variants of "reserva"
Frequency rank: #2,422 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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