canoa
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,970
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
canoa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Embarcación pequeña, estrecha, de poco calado, sin quilla ni timón, en la que se usa una pala de una hoja. Pronounced [kaˈnoa]. Often confused with coa and casa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canoa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈnoa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #22,970 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for canoa is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈnoa]. Corpus data places it at rank #22,970 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for canoa, with forms such as "acnoa", "canao", and "cannoa". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "coa", "casa", "caso", 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 canoa, spelled C-A-N-O-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Embarcación pequeña, estrecha, de poco calado, sin quilla ni timón, en la que se usa una pala de una hoja.
- 2Vehículo terrestre a tracción animal, hecho con un tronco ahuecado y semejante a una canoa₁, que se usa en algunos lugares de Chiloé para transportar carga por lugares lodosos que no permiten el uso de carretas.
- 3Bote ligero a bordo de un buque, para uso del capitán.
- 4Sombrero de eclesiástico, con las alas dobladas y levantadas.
- 5Cualquier tipo de canal que lleva el agua hacia un lugar.
- 6Pieza de metal doblado, generalmente de cinc, que se pone en el borde del tejado para que recoja el agua de la lluvia y la lleve hacia un único punto de caída.
- 7Cajón de madera de forma oblonga, especie de artesa, para dar comida a los animales, recoger miel, y otros usos.
- 8Cobertura de plástico de los tubos fluorescentes.
- 9Vaina alargada de los coquitos de la palmera chilena.
- 10Superficie entre los genitales y el ano^([cita requerida]).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acnoa,canao,cannoa,caona,ccanoa,cnaoa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for canoa
Misspelling Variants of "canoa"
Frequency rank: #22,970 in Spanish
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