americana

/[ameɾiˈkana]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,224

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

americana is aSpanishnoun. It means: Prenda de vestir semejante a la chaqueta, pero más larga. Pronounced [ameɾiˈkana]. It ranks #3,224 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Americas and americano.

Key facts for americana
PropertyValue
Headwordamericana
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ameɾiˈkana]
Letters9
Frequency rank#3,224
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for americana is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ameɾiˈkana]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,224 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Prenda de vestir semejante a la chaqueta, pero más larga.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for americana, with forms such as "aemricana", "ameircana", and "amerciana". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Americas", "americano", "americanos", 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 americana, spelled A-M-E-R-I-C-A-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prenda de vestir semejante a la chaqueta, pero más larga.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aemricana,ameircana,amerciana,ameriacna,americaan,americanna,americcana,americnaa,amerricana,ammericana,amreicana,maericana

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for americana

Misspelling Variants of "americana"

aemricana9ameircana9amerciana9ameriacna9americaan9americanna10americcana10americnaa9
Misspelling Variants of "americana"

Frequency rank: #3,224 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "americana"?
"americana" is spelled A-M-E-R-I-C-A-N-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ameɾiˈkana].
What does "americana" mean?
As a noun, "americana" means: Prenda de vestir semejante a la chaqueta, pero más larga.
What words are commonly confused with "americana"?
"americana" is commonly confused with "Americas", "americano", "americanos". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "americana"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "americana" is [ameɾiˈkana]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "americana" come from?
"americana" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Spanish words

Other entries that begin with the letter A in our Spanish index:

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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.