cañar
[kaˈɲaɾ]
The verdict
“cañar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #59,852 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,852
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cortar la caña de azúcar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-canar · cañar · Spanish
cañar · rank #59,852 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,852
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cautelosamente
Nearest frequency peer: cautelosamente (-2 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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “cañar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- carreteros
carreteros
40,153 corpus weight
- casilleros
casilleros
40,152 corpus weight
- cautelosame…
cautelosamente
40,151 corpus weight
- cañar
cañar
40,149 corpus weight
- celada
celada
40,145 corpus weight
- centauros
centauros
40,144 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cañar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cañar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kaˈɲaɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,852 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cañar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cañar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #59,852 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [kaˈɲaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cortar la caña de azúcar.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cañar in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is cañar, spelled C-A-Ñ-A-R.
Definition
- 1Cortar la caña de azúcar.
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.
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