ainu
[ˈajnu]
The verdict
“ainu” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #91,543 among 120,137 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,543
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 120,137
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Perteneciente o relativo a una etnia que habita hoy las islas japonesas de Hokkaido y Honshu, comprendiendo unas 150.000 personas. De origen asiático, y presuntamente naturales de la isla Sajalín, ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ainu |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈajnu] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #91,543 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ainu” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
ainu is uncommon Spanish at frequency #91,543 among 120,137 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈajnu]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Perteneciente o relativo a una etnia que habita hoy las islas japonesas de Hokkaido y Honshu, comprendiendo unas 150.000 personas. De origen asiático, y presuntamente naturales de la isla Sajalín, ...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ainu, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is ainu, spelled A-I-N-U.
Definition
- 1Perteneciente o relativo a una etnia que habita hoy las islas japonesas de Hokkaido y Honshu, comprendiendo unas 150.000 personas. De origen asiático, y presuntamente naturales de la isla Sajalín, están sólo lejanamente relacionados en cultura, religión y lengua con la etnia japonesa, y formaron hasta época muy reciente un grupo bien diferenciado.
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 “ainu”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-I-N-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈajnu] (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.