banano
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,896
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
banano is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Musa acuminata, M. balbisiana, M. x paradisiaca) Grupo de plantas herbáceas, compuesto tanto por híbridos como por cultivares genéticamente puros de algunas especies de Musa, que se cultivan por s... Pronounced [baˈnano]. Often confused with baño and banco.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | banano |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [baˈnano] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #35,896 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for banano is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [baˈnano]. Corpus data places it at rank #35,896 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for banano, with forms such as "abnano", "baanno", and "bananno". 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, "baño", "banco", "bando", 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 banano, spelled B-A-N-A-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Musa acuminata, M. balbisiana, M. x paradisiaca) Grupo de plantas herbáceas, compuesto tanto por híbridos como por cultivares genéticamente puros de algunas especies de Musa, que se cultivan por su fruto, la banana y el plátano, que se consume como alimento. Se cultivan en más de 130 países, desde el sudeste asiático de donde son nativas, hasta Oceanía y Sudamérica. No son árboles sino megaforbias perennes, con pseudotallo de hasta 7 metros de altura y hojas que se cuentan entre las más grandes del reino vegetal.
- 2Banana (fruto del banano).
- 3Pene.
- 4Pliegue de grasa en la zona abdominal.
- 5Pequeño bolso que se ata a la altura de la cintura y se lleva por delante.
- 6Bote ligero recreativo inflable, remolcado por una lancha, en donde los pasajeros van sentados a horcajadas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abnano,baanno,bananno,banaon,bannano,bannao,bbanano,bnaano,vanano
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for banano
Misspelling Variants of "banano"
Frequency rank: #35,896 in Spanish
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