tranca
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,794
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tranca is aSpanishnoun. It means: Palo fuerte que se coloca atravesado detras de una puerta o ventana para cerrarla con seguridad (para trancarla). Pronounced [ˈt̪ɾãŋka]. Often confused with trata and traza.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tranca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪ɾãŋka] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #35,794 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tranca is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪ɾãŋka]. Corpus data places it at rank #35,794 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for tranca, with forms such as "rtanca", "tarnca", and "tracna". 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, "trata", "traza", "tronco", 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 tranca, spelled T-R-A-N-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Palo fuerte que se coloca atravesado detras de una puerta o ventana para cerrarla con seguridad (para trancarla).
- 2Cualquier palo grueso y fuerte.
- 3Armazón de palos, alambre u otros materiales que se emplea como puerta rústica en los campos.
- 4Estado de alteración de la conducta y la percepción causado por el consumo excesivo de alguna bebida alcohólica.
- 5Malestar que se siente cuando pasan los efectos de la embriaguez.
- 6Órgano que presenta el macho de los mamíferos, de forma eréctil, en el que desembocan los conductos del tracto genitourinario.
- 7Barrera psicológica que impide cierto comportamiento.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtanca,tarnca,tracna,tranac,trancca,trannca,trnaca,trranca,ttranca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tranca
Misspelling Variants of "tranca"
Frequency rank: #35,794 in Spanish
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