ánimas
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,836
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ánimas is aSpanishnoun. It means: Aviso que se da a los fieles tocando las campanas de la iglesia para que pidan por la salvación de las almas del purgatorio. Pronounced [ˈanimas]. Often confused with anís and Armas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ánimas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈanimas] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #35,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ánimas is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈanimas]. Corpus data places it at rank #35,836 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for ánimas, with forms such as "náimas", "áinmas", and "ániams". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "anís", "Armas", "ánimo", 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 ánimas, spelled Á-N-I-M-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Aviso que se da a los fieles tocando las campanas de la iglesia para que pidan por la salvación de las almas del purgatorio.
- 2Hora en la que se da este aviso₁.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: náimas,áinmas,ániams,ánimass,ánimmas,ánimsa,ánmias,ánnimas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ánimas
Misspelling Variants of "ánimas"
Frequency rank: #35,836 in Spanish
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