cena
[ˈsena]
The verdict
“cena” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,105) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,105
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Comida nocturna.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cena · cena · Spanish
cena · rank #3,105 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,105
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH caras
Nearest frequency peer: caras (-1 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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “cena”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Bienvenida
Bienvenida
96,899 corpus weight
- brillante
brillante
96,898 corpus weight
- caras
caras
96,897 corpus weight
- cena
cena
96,896 corpus weight
- comunicado
comunicado
96,895 corpus weight
- conoces
conoces
96,894 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “cena” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cena |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsena] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “cena”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cena is neighbouring look-alikes ("con", "ceo", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈsena]. Frequency #3,105 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Comida nocturna.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for cena, with forms such as "ccena", "cenna", and "cnea". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "con", "ceo", "cha", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is cena, spelled C-E-N-A.
Definition
- 1Comida nocturna.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccena
- cenna
- cnea
- ecna
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cena - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cena", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).