yema
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#27,822
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
yema is aSpanishnoun. It means: Embrión del brote de un vegetal, que dará origen a una ramita Pronounced [ˈʝema]. Often confused with yes and yen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yema |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʝema] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #27,822 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for yema is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʝema]. Corpus data places it at rank #27,822 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for yema, with forms such as "eyma", "yeam", and "yemma". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "yes", "yen", "yet", 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 yema, spelled Y-E-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Embrión del brote de un vegetal, que dará origen a una ramita
- 2Parte central del huevo, correspondiente al citoplasma de la célula
- 3Por analogía, parte más rica y selecta de una cosa
- 4Prominencia superficial que forman algunos organismos, especialmente unicelulares, como forma de reproducción asexual
- 5Individuo que nace a partir de una yema₄
- 6Dulce preparado con yema₂ de huevo y azúcar
- 7Dulce preparado con yema₂ de huevo y azúcar disueltos en leche
- 8Punta del dedo del lado de la palma
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eyma,yeam,yemma,ymea,yyema
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for yema
Misspelling Variants of "yema"
Frequency rank: #27,822 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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