ceniza
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,776
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
ceniza is aSpanishnoun. It means: Restos pulverulentos de la combustión completa de algún material, de color gris o negruzco. Pronounced [seˈnisa]. Often confused with centra and cotiza.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ceniza |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [seˈnisa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ceniza is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [seˈnisa]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,776 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.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for ceniza, with forms such as "cceniza", "ceinza", and "ceniaz". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "centra", "cotiza", "cereza", 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 ceniza, spelled C-E-N-I-Z-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Restos pulverulentos de la combustión completa de algún material, de color gris o negruzco.
- 2Figurativamente, restos físicos de un cadáver humano.
- 3Grupo de enfermedades de los vegetales, provocada por ascomicotes, que se manifiesta en manchas de color claro en hojas y tallos.
- 4Restos de una persona incinerada en una ceremonia mortuoria, que los parientes conservan en un recipiente o esparcen en algún lugar según los últimos deseos del difunto.
- 5Recuerdo de los muertos.
- 6Cola y ceniza usada para los lienzos del pintor.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cceniza,ceinza,ceniaz,cenizza,cenniza,cenzia,cneiza,ecniza,seniza
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ceniza
Misspelling Variants of "ceniza"
Frequency rank: #12,776 in Spanish
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