ruleta
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,814
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
ruleta is aSpanishnoun. It means: Rueda usada en juegos de azar. Pronounced [ruˈlet̪a]. Often confused with ruta and Reta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ruleta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ruˈlet̪a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,814 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ruleta is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ruˈlet̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #20,814 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for ruleta, with forms such as "rlueta", "rruleta", and "ruelta". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "ruta", "Reta", "rule", 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 ruleta, spelled R-U-L-E-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rueda usada en juegos de azar.
- 2Juego de azar típico de los casinos en el que se usa una bola que se mueve rápidamente en un círculo dividido en espacios numerados y pintados de negro y rojo y que permite una variedad de apuestas.
- 3Curva plana que describe la trayectoria de un punto, vinculado a una curva generatriz C₁, que rueda sobre otra curva directriz C₂, tangencialmente, sin deslizamiento. Tanto C₁ como C₂ son curvas planas.
- 4Amague que consiste en pisar la pelota con un pie, dar media vuelta en el lugar, y cambiar de pie para terminar la otra media vuelta acompañando la pelota con el pie al que se acaba de cambiar.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rlueta,rruleta,ruelta,ruleat,ruletta,rulleta,rultea,urleta
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Misspelling Variants of "ruleta"
Frequency rank: #20,814 in Spanish
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