cenefa
[seˈnefa]
The verdict
“cenefa” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #89,669 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #89,669
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Lista sobrepuesta o tejida en los bordes de las cortinas, doseles, pañuelos, etc., de la misma tela y a veces de otra distinta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cenefa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [seˈnefa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #89,669 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cenefa” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cenefa is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [seˈnefa]. Corpus data places it at rank #89,669 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for cenefa in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 cenefa, spelled C-E-N-E-F-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lista sobrepuesta o tejida en los bordes de las cortinas, doseles, pañuelos, etc., de la misma tela y a veces de otra distinta.
- 2En las casullas, lista de en medio, la cual suele ser de tela o de color diferente de la de los lados.
- 3Dibujo de ornamentación que se pone a lo largo de los muros, pavimentos y techos y suele consistir en elementos repetidos de un mismo adorno.
- 4Madero grueso que rodea una cofa, o en que termina o apoya su armazón.
- 5Cada uno de los cantos circularea de la armazón de los tambores en las ruedas de un vapor.
- 6Tira de lona que cuelga de las relingas del toldo, para que no entre el sol.
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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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Using “cenefa”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-E-N-E-F-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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