alimaña
[aliˈmaɲa]
The verdict
“alimaña” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #82,606 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,606
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Animal carnívoro pequeño que suele entorpecer la cacería, como el zorro, el gato montés, el milano, etc.
Corpus desk
Index ES-alimana · alimaña · Spanish
alimaña · rank #82,606 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,606
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH alienar
Nearest frequency peer: alienar (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “alimaña”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- algebraicas
algebraicas
17,398 corpus weight
- alicate
alicate
17,397 corpus weight
- alienar
alienar
17,396 corpus weight
- alimaña
alimaña
17,395 corpus weight
- alocados
alocados
17,394 corpus weight
- alomar
alomar
17,393 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “alimaña” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alimaña |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aliˈmaɲa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,606 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “alimaña” en español
Rare enough to double-check
alimaña is uncommon Spanish at frequency #82,606 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [aliˈmaɲa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for alimaña in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 alimaña, spelled A-L-I-M-A-Ñ-A.
Definition
- 1Animal carnívoro pequeño que suele entorpecer la cacería, como el zorro, el gato montés, el milano, etc.
- 2Cualquier animal (no humano).
- 3Persona en la cual no se puede confiar y de malas intenciones.
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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