afán
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,759
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
afán is aSpanishnoun. It means: Ansia, solicitud, congoja, anhelo vehemente. Pronounced [aˈfãn]. It ranks #9,759 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with an and aún.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | afán |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈfãn] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,759 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for afán is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈfãn]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,759 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for afán, with forms such as "affán", "afná", and "afánn". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "an", "aún", "Ana", 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 afán, spelled A-F-Á-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ansia, solicitud, congoja, anhelo vehemente.
- 2Trabajo penoso y solícito, tarea ímproba.
- 3Fatiga, penalidad, zozobra.
- 4Prisa, urgencia para ejecutar algo.
- 5Trabajo corporal.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: affán,afná,afánn,aáfn,faán
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for afán
Misspelling Variants of "afán"
Frequency rank: #9,759 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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