retirada
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,885
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
retirada is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de retirar o de retirarse. Pronounced [ret̪iˈɾað̞a]. It ranks #5,885 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with retirar and retiran.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retirada |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ret̪iˈɾað̞a] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,885 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for retirada is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ret̪iˈɾað̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,885 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 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for retirada, with forms such as "ertirada", "reitrada", and "retiarda". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "retirar", "retiran", "retrasa", 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 retirada, spelled R-E-T-I-R-A-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de retirar o de retirarse.
- 2Terreno o sitio que sirve de acogida segura.
- 3Paso de la antigua danza española, que se hacía avanzando y retirando con rapidez el pie derecho.
- 4Acción de retroceder en orden, alejándose del enemigo.
- 5Toque militar que se usaba para marchar en retirada, y para avisar a la tropa que se recoja por la noche en el cuartel
- 6Un periodo de retiro, reclusión o soledad^([cita requerida]).
- 7Un periodo de meditación, oración o estudio^([cita requerida]).
- 8Una llamada de bugle o sonido de redoblantes, señalando la bajada de la bandera del asta en el atardecer, como en una base militar^([cita requerida]).
- 9Ceremonia militar en la que se baja la bandera del asta^([cita requerida]).
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ertirada,reitrada,retiarda,retiraad,retiradda,retirdaa,retirrada,retriada,rettirada,rretirada,rteirada
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for retirada
Misspelling Variants of "retirada"
Frequency rank: #5,885 in Spanish
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