runa
[ˈruna]
The verdict
“runa” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,061) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,061
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cada uno de los caracteres angulosos de varios alfabetos derivados del itálico antiguo empleados por los pueblos germánicos durante la Antigüedad y el Medioevo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-runa · runa · Spanish
runa · rank #41,061 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,061
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH románica
Nearest frequency peer: románica (-2 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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “runa”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- ROC
ROC
58,945 corpus weight
- Rome
Rome
58,944 corpus weight
- románica
románica
58,942 corpus weight
- runa
runa
58,940 corpus weight
- Sajonia
Sajonia
58,938 corpus weight
- Samoa
Samoa
58,935 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “runa” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | runa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈruna] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #41,061 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “runa”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for runa is neighbouring look-alikes ("Rus", "Rut", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈruna]. Frequency #41,061 among 4,151 “R” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for runa, with forms such as "rnua", "rruna", and "ruan". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Rus", "Rut", "ruz", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is runa, spelled R-U-N-A.
Definition
- 1Cada uno de los caracteres angulosos de varios alfabetos derivados del itálico antiguo empleados por los pueblos germánicos durante la Antigüedad y el Medioevo.
- 2Cada una de las secciones de los poemas épicos de la tradición finesa.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how runa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En España no hay vestigio, a lo menos en los escritos, de que los Godos trajesen por acá las letras runas.
Confirman esta conjetura las inscripciones que he descubierto en la cumbre de la meseta y cuyos caracteres, que se asemejan a las runas que nuestros mayores grababan, ya no se dejan descifrar por la tribu.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rnua
- rruna
- ruan
- runna
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of runa - 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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).