aceña

/[aˈseɲa]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

aceña is aSpanishnoun. It means: Molino de harina movido por la corriente de un curso de agua junto al que se instala. Pronounced [aˈseɲa].

Key facts for aceña
PropertyValue
Headwordaceña
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[aˈseɲa]
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

aceña is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

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

  1. 1
    Molino de harina movido por la corriente de un curso de agua junto al que se instala.
  2. 2
    Noria hidráulica para regar los sembradíos.
  3. 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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "aceña"?
"aceña" is spelled A-C-E-Ñ-A. The IPA pronunciation is [aˈseɲa].
What does "aceña" mean?
As a noun, "aceña" means: Molino de harina movido por la corriente de un curso de agua junto al que se instala.
How do you pronounce "aceña"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "aceña" is [aˈseɲa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "aceña" come from?
"aceña" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.