rosca
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,506
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
rosca is aSpanishnoun. It means: Objeto redondo y rollizo que, cerrándose, forma un círculo u óvalo, dejando en medio un espacio vacío. Pronounced [ˈroska]. Often confused with rusa and Rota.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rosca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈroska] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #20,506 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for rosca is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈroska]. Corpus data places it at rank #20,506 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for rosca, with forms such as "orsca", "rosac", and "roscca". 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, "rusa", "Rota", "roza", 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 rosca, spelled R-O-S-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Objeto redondo y rollizo que, cerrándose, forma un círculo u óvalo, dejando en medio un espacio vacío.
- 2Pan con forma de rosca.
- 3Carnosidad que rebosa a las personas gruesas alrededor del cuello, las muñecas y las piernas, sobre todo si es de niños.
- 4Rollo circular que los colegiales traen por distintivo en una de las hojas de la beca.
- 5Cada una de las vueltas de una espiral, o el conjunto de ellas.
- 6Superficie cuyo eje está contenido en el plano y en torno a él describe una trayectoria helicoidal cilíndrica.
- 7Faja de material que, sola o con otras concéntricas, forma un arco o bóveda.
- 8Rodete que se usa para llevar peso en la cabeza.
- 9Larva que se enrosca con facilidad, muy dañina para las plantas.
- 10Conjunto de palaciegos que influyen subrepticiamente en los negocios del Estado, de alguna autoridad o de algún personaje específico.
- 11Disputa o conflicto entre personas.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: orsca,rosac,roscca,rossca,rrosca,rsoca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rosca
Misspelling Variants of "rosca"
Frequency rank: #20,506 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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