rua
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,933
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
rua is aSpanishverb. It means: Segunda persona del singular (vos) del imperativo afirmativo de ruar. Pronounced [ˈrwa]. Often confused with Rx and run.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rua |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈrwa] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #28,933 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for rua is 3 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈrwa]. Corpus data places it at rank #28,933 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Segunda persona del singular (vos) del imperativo afirmativo de ruar.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for rua in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Rx", "run", "rue", 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 rua, spelled R-U-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Segunda persona del singular (vos) del imperativo afirmativo de ruar.
Frequency rank: #28,933 in Spanish
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