ruda
[ˈruð̞a]
The verdict
“ruda” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #25,801. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,801
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Ruta spp.) Cualquiera de unas 40 especies de plantas herbáceas o arbustivas de la familia de las rutáceas, siempreverdes, de hijas bi- o tripinnadas, correosas, glaucas, flores amarillas tetrámera...
Corpus desk
Index ES-ruda · ruda · Spanish
ruda · rank #25,801 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,801
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH rumba
Nearest frequency peer: rumba (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “ruda”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- reúnan
reúnan
74,204 corpus weight
- Richmond
Richmond
74,202 corpus weight
- ruda
ruda
74,200 corpus weight
- rumba
rumba
74,199 corpus weight
- Rus
Rus
74,198 corpus weight
- sacaban
sacaban
74,196 corpus weight
What this shows “ruda” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ruda |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈruð̞a] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #25,801 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “ruda”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around ruda (IPA [ˈruð̞a]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,801 among 4,151 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "(Ruta spp.) Cualquiera de unas 40 especies de plantas herbáceas o arbustivas de la familia de las rutáceas, siempreverdes, de hijas bi- o tripinnadas, correosas, glaucas, flores amarillas tetrámera...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for ruda, with forms such as "rdua", "rruda", and "ruad". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "run", "rue", "Rus", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is ruda, spelled R-U-D-A.
Definition
- 1(Ruta spp.) Cualquiera de unas 40 especies de plantas herbáceas o arbustivas de la familia de las rutáceas, siempreverdes, de hijas bi- o tripinnadas, correosas, glaucas, flores amarillas tetrámeras o pentámeras formando cimas, y frutos en cápsula. Son intensamente aromáticas y muy amargas, usándose en medicina y gastronomía.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ruda appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
çumo de regaliza ocho libras & de eufragia & de bretonjca & de sileris montanjque son comjnos rosticos & de nepta de cada vno ocho libras & de semjente de ruda & de baxilico.
Y todos escuchan admirados las virtudes del ruibarbo, de la ruda, de la mejorana, y de la celidonia, y de la matalahúva, de la adelfa seca, del polvo de adormideras con azúcar cande.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rdua
- rruda
- ruad
- rudda
- urda
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ruda - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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