cañaheja
[kaɲaˈexa]
The verdict
“cañaheja” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
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- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Althaea hirsuta) Planta perteneciente a la familia de las malváceas. El género Althaea se diferencia de Malva y de Lavatera porque el calículo, que es un falso de cáliz extra que tienen las malvác...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cañaheja |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaɲaˈexa] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cañaheja” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cañaheja is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaɲaˈexa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for cañaheja 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 cañaheja, spelled C-A-Ñ-A-H-E-J-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Althaea hirsuta) Planta perteneciente a la familia de las malváceas. El género Althaea se diferencia de Malva y de Lavatera porque el calículo, que es un falso de cáliz extra que tienen las malváceas, tiene más de tres piezas. Esta especie es una hierba de ciclo anual generalmente de menos de un palmo de altura. Tiene unas hojas muy divididas en la parte superior y otras en la base que son redondeadas y débilmente lobuladas, éstas además tienen un largo pecíolo. Las flores tienen un hermoso color rosa liliáceo. Vive en pastos secos de plantas anuales y florece al final de la primavera.
- 2(Conium maculatum) planta con una altura de entre y 1,5-2,5 m. Posee tallo hueco y estriado, manchado de color purpúreo en la base y muy ramoso en la parte superior; hojas blandas, fétidas, verdinegras, triangulares y divididas en gajos elípticos, puntiagudos y dentados de hasta 5 dm de largo y 4 dm de ancho. Las flores son pequeñas, de color blanco y surgen en umbelas de unos 10 a 15 cm de diámetro. Semilla pequeña de color negruzco.
- 3(Ferula communis) arbusto perenne, de 1-3 m de altura, muy robusto, con grandes inflorescencias abundantemente ramificadas. Tallos erectos, cilíndricos, de hasta 2 cm de grosor, surcados. Hojas tiernas , 3 hasta 4 (6) veces foliadas. Folíolos lineares, planos, de 1,5-5 cm de largo. Hojas inferiores de 30-60 cm de largo, con pecíolo largo y cilíndrico. Hojas superiores con limbo grande y llamativo. Las hojas más altas envainadoras.
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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- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-Ñ-A-H-E-J-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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