añorar
[aɲoˈɾaɾ]
The verdict
“añorar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #74,277 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,277
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sentir con nostalgia o pena la ausencia o distancia de alguien o de algo querido.
Corpus desk
Index ES-anorar · añorar · Spanish
añorar · rank #74,277 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,277
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH azad
Nearest frequency peer: azad (-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 “añorar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- avivaron
avivaron
25,727 corpus weight
- Aviñón
Aviñón
25,726 corpus weight
- azad
azad
25,725 corpus weight
- añorar
añorar
25,724 corpus weight
- bacanal
bacanal
25,723 corpus weight
- Baigorria
Baigorria
25,722 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “añorar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | añorar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [aɲoˈɾaɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,277 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “añorar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
añorar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #74,277 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [aɲoˈɾaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sentir con nostalgia o pena la ausencia o distancia de alguien o de algo querido.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for añorar in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 añorar, spelled A-Ñ-O-R-A-R.
Definition
- 1Sentir con nostalgia o pena la ausencia o distancia de alguien o de algo querido.
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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