cánula
[ˈkanula]
The verdict
“cánula” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #79,035 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,035
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tubo que es insertado en el cuerpo, a menudo para aportar o remover fluidos o para tomar muestras.
Corpus desk
Index ES-canula · cánula · Spanish
cánula · rank #79,035 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,035
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cursilería
Nearest frequency peer: cursilería (-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 “cánula”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- culturismo
culturismo
20,972 corpus weight
- curandera
curandera
20,970 corpus weight
- curros
curros
20,969 corpus weight
- cursilería
cursilería
20,968 corpus weight
- cánula
cánula
20,966 corpus weight
- Dania
Dania
20,962 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cánula” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cánula |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkanula] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,035 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cánula” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cánula is uncommon Spanish at frequency #79,035 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkanula]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tubo que es insertado en el cuerpo, a menudo para aportar o remover fluidos o para tomar muestras.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cánula in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is cánula, spelled C-Á-N-U-L-A.
Definition
- 1Tubo que es insertado en el cuerpo, a menudo para aportar o remover fluidos o para tomar muestras.
This word in other languages
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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