aceña
Letters
5 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
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Confusables
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aceña is aSpanishnoun. It means: Molino de harina movido por la corriente de un curso de agua junto al que se instala. Pronounced [aˈseɲa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aceña |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈseɲa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for aceña is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈseɲa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for aceña in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 aceña, spelled A-C-E-Ñ-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Molino de harina movido por la corriente de un curso de agua junto al que se instala.
- 2Noria hidráulica para regar los sembradíos.
- 3(Typha spp.) Cualquiera de una quincena de especies de plantas herbáceas acuáticas emergentes, de distribución cosmopolita; son perennes, echando tallos verticales a partir de un rizoma, con hojas basales muy erectas envolviendo al tallo, y una característica inflorescencia terminal a modo de espiga cilíndrica de flores actinomorfas muy pequeñas.
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