toma
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#869
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
toma is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de tomar (recibir o encargarse de algo). Pronounced [ˈt̪oma]. It ranks #869 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with top and tos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | toma |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪oma] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #869 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for toma is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪oma]. Corpus data places it at rank #869 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for toma, with forms such as "otma", "tmoa", and "toam". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "top", "tos", "too", 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 toma, spelled T-O-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de tomar (recibir o encargarse de algo).
- 2Ración o dosis de algo que se recibe o consume de una vez, o de un medicamento administrado por vía oral.
- 3Conexión o lugar desde donde fluye corriente eléctrica, señal de internet, etc.
- 4Proceso y resultado de filmar o fotografiar.
- 5Acción y resultado de apoderarse de un territorio o espacio por la fuerza.
- 6Arroyo, río pequeño, quebrada.
- 7Canal de irrigación.
- 8Llave, lance de lucha para inmovilizar al adversario.
- 9Abertura que se hace con el fin de desviar parte del agua que pasa por un canal.
- 10Abertura que se practica sobre el capó para facilitar la entrada de aire hacia el motor.
- 11Tanto el asentamiento informal, que surge de la ocupación de terrenos vacíos por población con problemas de vivienda, así como el acto de dicha ocupación.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: otma,tmoa,toam,tomma,ttoma
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for toma
Misspelling Variants of "toma"
Frequency rank: #869 in Spanish
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