anís
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#32,962
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
anís is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Pimpinella anisum) Planta herbácea de la familia de las umbelíferas. Forma matas densas de medio metro de altura. Produce en temporada diminutas flores pentámeras de color blanco. Su fruto es seco... Pronounced [aˈnis]. Often confused with as and así.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anís |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈnis] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #32,962 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for anís is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈnis]. Corpus data places it at rank #32,962 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for anís, with forms such as "annís", "ansí", and "aníss". 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, "as", "así", "año", 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 anís, spelled A-N-Í-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Pimpinella anisum) Planta herbácea de la familia de las umbelíferas. Forma matas densas de medio metro de altura. Produce en temporada diminutas flores pentámeras de color blanco. Su fruto es seco, ricamente aromático por su elevado contenido en anetol, y se utiliza como especia en panadería y repostería.
- 2Cualquiera de los numerosos licores obtenidos por la maceración de las semillas de esta planta en aguardiente, bebidos como digestivos.
- 3Dícese de una bebida alcohólica a base de dicha planta, de sabor dulce y alta graduación alcohólica.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: annís,ansí,aníss,aíns,naís
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "anís"
Frequency rank: #32,962 in Spanish
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