azafrán
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#34,453
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
azafrán is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Crocus sativus) Planta de la familia de las Iridáceas, con bulbos sólidos, hojas lineales, perigonio de tres divisiones externas y tres internas algo menores; tres estambres, ovario triangular, es... Pronounced [asaˈfɾãn]. Often confused with agarran.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | azafrán |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [asaˈfɾãn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #34,453 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for azafrán is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [asaˈfɾãn]. Corpus data places it at rank #34,453 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for azafrán, with forms such as "aazfrán", "azaffrán", and "azafrná". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "agarran", 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 azafrán, spelled A-Z-A-F-R-Á-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Crocus sativus) Planta de la familia de las Iridáceas, con bulbos sólidos, hojas lineales, perigonio de tres divisiones externas y tres internas algo menores; tres estambres, ovario triangular, estilo filiforme, estigma de color rojo anaranjado, dividido en tres partes colgantes, y caja membranosa con muchas semillas. Procede de Oriente y se cultiva en varias provincias de España.
- 2Estigma de esta planta. Se usa para condimentar manjares y para teñir de amarillo, y en medicina como estimulante y emenagogo.
- 3Madero exterior que forma parte de la pala del timón y se une con pernos a la madre.
- 4Color amarillo anaranjado para iluminar, que se saca del estigma del azafrán¹ desleído en agua.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aazfrán,azaffrán,azafrná,azafrrán,azafránn,azafárn,azarfán,azfarán,azzafrán,zaafrán
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Misspelling Variants of "azafrán"
Frequency rank: #34,453 in Spanish
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