afano

/[aˈfano]/ verb

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#64,320

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

afano is aSpanishverb. It means: Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de afanar. Pronounced [aˈfano].

Key facts for afano
PropertyValue
Headwordafano
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[aˈfano]
Letters5
Frequency rank#64,320
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of afano in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for afano is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈfano]. Corpus data places it at rank #64,320 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de afanar.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for afano in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 afano, spelled A-F-A-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de afanar.

Frequency rank: #64,320 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "afano"?
"afano" is spelled A-F-A-N-O. The IPA pronunciation is [aˈfano].
What does "afano" mean?
As a verb, "afano" means: Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de afanar.
How do you pronounce "afano"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "afano" is [aˈfano]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "afano" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.