buona sera
/ˈbwɔ.na ˈsɛ.ɾa/
The verdict
“buona sera” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as an interjection - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Buenas tardes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | buona sera |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /ˈbwɔ.na ˈsɛ.ɾa/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “buona sera” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for buona sera is 10 letters long, classified as an interjection, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈbwɔ.na ˈsɛ.ɾa/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for buona sera 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 buona sera, spelled B-U-O-N-A- -S-E-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Buenas tardes.
- 2Buenas noches₁.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “buona sera”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-U-O-N-A- -S-E-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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