úlcera
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#30,722
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
úlcera is aSpanishnoun. It means: Lesión en la piel o en las mucosas, poco propensa a cicatrizar, que adopta forma de cráter y se acompaña de inflamación y a veces infección. Pronounced [ˈulseɾa]. Often confused with ultra and uniera.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | úlcera |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈulseɾa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #30,722 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for úlcera is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈulseɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #30,722 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 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for úlcera, with forms such as "lúcera", "úclera", and "úlccera". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "ultra", "uniera", 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 úlcera, spelled Ú-L-C-E-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lesión en la piel o en las mucosas, poco propensa a cicatrizar, que adopta forma de cráter y se acompaña de inflamación y a veces infección.
- 2Lesión en la parte leñosa de una planta que causa un daño progresivo, y por la cual exuda savia corrompida.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lúcera,úclera,úlccera,úlcear,úlcerra,úlcrea,úlecra,úllcera,úlsera
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for úlcera
Misspelling Variants of "úlcera"
Frequency rank: #30,722 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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