roya
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#56,647
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
roya is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cualquiera de las especies de hongos, que se caracterizan por ser parásitos y por producir diversas clases de esporas de colores variados que se manifiestan como manchas en las plantas afectadas. Pronounced [ˈroʝa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roya |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈroʝa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #56,647 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for roya is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈroʝa]. Corpus data places it at rank #56,647 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for roya in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 roya, spelled R-O-Y-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cualquiera de las especies de hongos, que se caracterizan por ser parásitos y por producir diversas clases de esporas de colores variados que se manifiestan como manchas en las plantas afectadas.
- 2Enfermedad de algunos árboles que produce un polvo rojo negruzco en el centro del tronco.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #56,647 in Spanish
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