yegua
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,291
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
yegua is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Equus caballus) Hembra adulta del caballo. Pronounced [ˈʝeɣ̞wa]. Often confused with yoga and yema.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yegua |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʝeɣ̞wa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,291 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for yegua is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʝeɣ̞wa]. Corpus data places it at rank #19,291 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for yegua, with forms such as "eygua", "yegau", and "yeggua". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "yoga", "yema", "Yerba", 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 yegua, spelled Y-E-G-U-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Equus caballus) Hembra adulta del caballo.
- 2Mujer atractiva y con buen cuerpo, vista como objeto sexual.
- 3Mujer de moral cuestionable o reprensible.^([cita requerida])
- 4Masa rellena con manzanas picadas y cocinada en agua hirviendo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eygua,yegau,yeggua,yeuga,ygeua,yyegua
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "yegua"
Frequency rank: #19,291 in Spanish
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