urna
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,245
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
urna is aSpanishnoun. It means: Tipo de vasija o caja especial destinada a guardar objetos de valor o las cenizas de los muertos (urna funeraria). Pronounced [ˈuɾna]. Often confused with usa and uva.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | urna |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈuɾna] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #15,245 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for urna is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈuɾna]. Corpus data places it at rank #15,245 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for urna, with forms such as "unra", "uran", and "urnna". 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, "usa", "uva", "uta", 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 urna, spelled U-R-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tipo de vasija o caja especial destinada a guardar objetos de valor o las cenizas de los muertos (urna funeraria).
- 2Caja herméticamente cerrada donde, durante una elección o sesión electoral, se depositan y guardan los votos hasta el momento de ser contados.
- 3Caja de cristal para guardar y exponer objetos valiosos.
- 4Antigua medida de líquidos.
- 5Caja o cajón donde se deposita un cadáver antes de ser enterrado.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: unra,uran,urnna,urrna
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for urna
Misspelling Variants of "urna"
Frequency rank: #15,245 in Spanish
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