canasta
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,369
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
canasta is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cesto redondo u ancho de boca, que suele tener dos asas y se hace de mimbres. Pronounced [kaˈnast̪a]. Often confused with casta and consta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canasta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈnast̪a] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,369 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for canasta is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈnast̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,369 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for canasta, with forms such as "acnasta", "caansta", and "canasat". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "casta", "consta", "canastas", 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 canasta, spelled C-A-N-A-S-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cesto redondo u ancho de boca, que suele tener dos asas y se hace de mimbres.
- 2Medida para aceitunas, usada en el Aljarafe de Sevilla; su cabida es de media fanega.
- 3Conjunto de vueltas de cabo, la última mordida, con que se mantiene aferrada la bandera o vela que se quiere izar en tal disposición y largarla desde abajo.
- 4Juego de cartas, donde el objetivo es crear grupos de cartas del mismo valor, para luego finalizar jugando o descartando todas las cartas de la mano.
- 5En el juego de la canasta, reunión de siete cartas del mismo número.
- 6Aro sujeto a un soporte o tablero, del que cuelga una red sin fondo y en donde es necesario embocar la pelota para obtener puntos.
- 7Introducción de la pelota en la canasta.
- 8Soporte que se adhiere al interior del inodoro y que contiene las pastillas o el líquido que lo va desinfectando a medida que se va renovando el agua.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acnasta,caansta,canasat,canassta,canastta,canatsa,cannasta,cansata,ccanasta,cnaasta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "canasta"
Frequency rank: #11,369 in Spanish
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