ruca
[ˈruka]
The verdict
“ruca” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #68,102 among 48,955 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,102
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 48,955
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Eruca vesicaria) Planta silvestre de la familia de las crucíferas, erguida, ramosa, con flores violáceas y frutos en silicuas cilíndricas. Florece en primavera y se encuentra en el centro y este d...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ruca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈruka] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #68,102 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ruca” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
ruca is uncommon Spanish at frequency #68,102 among 48,955 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈruka]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Eruca vesicaria) Planta silvestre de la familia de las crucíferas, erguida, ramosa, con flores violáceas y frutos en silicuas cilíndricas. Florece en primavera y se encuentra en el centro y este d...".
Zero misspellings are on record for ruca in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is ruca, spelled R-U-C-A.
Definition
- 1(Eruca vesicaria) Planta silvestre de la familia de las crucíferas, erguida, ramosa, con flores violáceas y frutos en silicuas cilíndricas. Florece en primavera y se encuentra en el centro y este de España.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “ruca”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is R-U-C-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.