turca
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,158
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
turca is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Pteroptochos megapodius) Ave de unos 23-24cm de longitud, de color café con una línea blanca supraciliar y la parte inferior del pecho y vientre de color blanco con barras cafés y negras; patas co... Pronounced [ˈt̪uɾka]. Often confused with tuya and turn.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | turca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪uɾka] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for turca is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪uɾka]. Corpus data places it at rank #13,158 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for turca, with forms such as "truca", "tturca", and "tucra". 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, "tuya", "turn", "turno", 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 turca, spelled T-U-R-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Pteroptochos megapodius) Ave de unos 23-24cm de longitud, de color café con una línea blanca supraciliar y la parte inferior del pecho y vientre de color blanco con barras cafés y negras; patas con garras grandes y cola vertical. Vive principalmente en el suelo en donde se alimenta de lombrices, insectos y otros invertebrados. Anida en cuevas que pueden medir dos metros de profundidad. Su hábitat son las laderas de cerros secas cubiertas de matas y matorrales desde la Región de Atacama hasta la Región del Biobío, en Chile.
- 2(Bryonia dioica) Planta trepadora de la familia de las Cucurbitáceas con zarcillos, hojas pentalobuladas, flores azuladas o blancas; el fruto es una baya de color rojo. La planta es tóxica y tiene uso en medicina natural como purgante y rubefaciente. Los brotes tiernos son comestibles.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: truca,tturca,tucra,turac,turcca,turrca,utrca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "turca"
Frequency rank: #13,158 in Spanish
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