braña
[ˈbɾaɲa]
The verdict
“braña” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #84,638 among 24,339 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,638
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 24,339
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pasto de verano con agua y prado.
Corpus desk
Index ES-brana · braña · Spanish
braña · rank #84,638 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,638
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 24,339
- PHOTO-FINISH Brandsen
Nearest frequency peer: Brandsen (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “braña”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- bombillo
bombillo
15,368 corpus weight
- Brandsen
Brandsen
15,364 corpus weight
- braña
braña
15,363 corpus weight
- breathe
breathe
15,362 corpus weight
- brocado
brocado
15,359 corpus weight
- brotaron
brotaron
15,356 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “braña” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | braña |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbɾaɲa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,638 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “braña” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
braña is uncommon Spanish at frequency #84,638 among 24,339 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈbɾaɲa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pasto de verano con agua y prado.".
Zero misspellings are on record for braña in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is braña, spelled B-R-A-Ñ-A.
Definition
- 1Pasto de verano con agua y prado.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.