amaño
[aˈmaɲo]
The verdict
“amaño” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #68,274 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,274
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Disposición para hacer con maña alguna cosa.
Corpus desk
Index ES-amano · amaño · Spanish
amaño · rank #68,274 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,274
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH amatista
Nearest frequency peer: amatista (-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 “amaño”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- aluviales
aluviales
31,731 corpus weight
- amarillentos
amarillentos
31,730 corpus weight
- amatista
amatista
31,728 corpus weight
- amaño
amaño
31,727 corpus weight
- ambo
ambo
31,725 corpus weight
- ambulatorios
ambulatorios
31,724 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “amaño” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amaño |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈmaɲo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,274 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “amaño” en español
Rare enough to double-check
amaño is uncommon Spanish at frequency #68,274 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [aˈmaɲo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
amaño doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 amaño, spelled A-M-A-Ñ-O.
Definition
- 1Disposición para hacer con maña alguna cosa.
- 2Traza o artificio para ejecutar o conseguir algo, especialmente cuando no es justo o merecido.
- 3Concubinato.
- 4Período de convivencia de una pareja que, en algunas comunidades indígenas, se usa como método para determinar la conveniencia o no de unirse en matrimonio.
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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