apaño
[aˈpaɲo]
The verdict
“apaño” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #60,536 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,536
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acción y efecto de apañar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-apano · apaño · Spanish
apaño · rank #60,536 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,536
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH apartaron
Nearest frequency peer: apartaron (-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 “apaño”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- apabullante
apabullante
39,468 corpus weight
- apaleado
apaleado
39,467 corpus weight
- apartaron
apartaron
39,466 corpus weight
- apaño
apaño
39,465 corpus weight
- apegarse
apegarse
39,464 corpus weight
- aportaría
aportaría
39,463 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “apaño” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apaño |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈpaɲo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,536 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “apaño” en español
Rare enough to double-check
apaño is uncommon Spanish at frequency #60,536 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [aˈpaɲo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for apaño, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is apaño, spelled A-P-A-Ñ-O.
Definition
- 1Acción y efecto de apañar.
- 2Compostura, reparo o remiendo hecho en alguna cosa.
- 3Disposición, maña o habilidad para hacer algo.
- 4Respecto de una persona amancebada, la que lo está con ella.
- 5Relación ilícita con esa persona.
- 6Acomodo, avío, conveniencia.
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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