adivinanza
[að̞iβ̞iˈnãnsa]
The verdict
“adivinanza” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #53,306 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #53,306
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Formulación de un acertijo o rompecabezas –una declaración que se refiere a algo de modo engañoso, codificado o enigmático– para que sea resuelto por el oyente o lector.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adivinanza |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [að̞iβ̞iˈnãnsa] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #53,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “adivinanza” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for adivinanza is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [að̞iβ̞iˈnãnsa]. Corpus data places it at rank #53,306 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.
adivinanza doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is adivinanza, spelled A-D-I-V-I-N-A-N-Z-A.
Definition
- 1Formulación de un acertijo o rompecabezas –una declaración que se refiere a algo de modo engañoso, codificado o enigmático– para que sea resuelto por el oyente o lector.
- 2Situación o afirmación difícil de entender o solucionar.
- 3Acción o efecto de adivinar (en sus diferentes acepciones).
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “adivinanza”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-D-I-V-I-N-A-N-Z-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [að̞iβ̞iˈnãnsa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.