usura
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#39,007
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
usura is aSpanishnoun. It means: Interés o porcentaje que se cobra por un préstamo, generalmente de dinero o del uso de un bien inmueble. Pronounced [uˈsuɾa]. Often confused with usurpar and usa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | usura |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [uˈsuɾa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #39,007 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for usura is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [uˈsuɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #39,007 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for usura, with forms such as "suura", "usrua", and "ussura". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "usurpar", "usa", "usar", 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 usura, spelled U-S-U-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Interés o porcentaje que se cobra por un préstamo, generalmente de dinero o del uso de un bien inmueble.
- 2Tasa exorbitante o porcentaje excesivo en los intereses sobre un préstamo.
- 3Por extensión, cualquier ganancia, lucro o plusvalía que se obtiene, en particular si parecen excesivos o exagerados.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: suura,usrua,ussura,usuar,usurra,uusra
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for usura
Misspelling Variants of "usura"
Frequency rank: #39,007 in Spanish
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