avellana
The verdict
“avellana” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #51,400 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #51,400
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Nuez comestible, fruto del avellano común (Corylus avellana L.). Tiene forma esferoidal, con un diámetro aproximado de 10 a 15 mm. Está formada por una cáscara fibrosa externa de color marrón brill...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avellana |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aβ̞eˈʝana] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,400 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “avellana” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for avellana is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aβ̞eˈʝana]. Corpus data places it at rank #51,400 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for avellana in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 avellana, spelled A-V-E-L-L-A-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nuez comestible, fruto del avellano común (Corylus avellana L.). Tiene forma esferoidal, con un diámetro aproximado de 10 a 15 mm. Está formada por una cáscara fibrosa externa de color marrón brillante que rodea una cubierta lisa en la que se aloja la semilla. La cáscara fibrosa se seca durante la maduración.
- 2Nuez comestible, fruto de otras especies del género Corylus.
- 3Tono de marrón, particularmente referido al color de ojos, semejante al color de la cáscara de una avellana₁.
- 4Por analogía, la nuez comestible fruto del avellano chileno (Gevuina avellana). Es de forma esferoidal u ovoide de color negro y unos 6 mm de diámetro. La semilla está formada por dos grandes cotiledones blancos.
- 5Por extensión, semilla comestible de la fabácea Arachis hypogaea, apreciada en gastronomía.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #51,400 in Spanish
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-V-E-L-L-A-N-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [aβ̞eˈʝana] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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