cañita
Spanish, noun
cañita is spelled C-A-Ñ-I-T-A (6 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Spanish, the 89,640th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cañita is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “drinking straw” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a diminutive of caña; small beer. Without its tilde, canita is a different word: “drinking straw”.
What does cañita mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininediminutive of caña; small beer
- 2
femininedrinking straw
noun
- 1
femininediminutive of cana
- 2
femininedrinking straw
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of cañita
- cañitas plural
- canitas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is cañita in Spanish?
cañita appears about once in every 6 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).