chañar
[t͡ʃaˈɲaɾ]
The verdict
“chañar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #98,221 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,221
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Geoffroea decorticans) Árbol de la familia de las leguminosas, de ramas espinosas, flores amarillas y un fruto dulce y comestible.
Corpus desk
Index ES-chanar · chañar · Spanish
chañar · rank #98,221 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,221
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH chaveta
Nearest frequency peer: chaveta (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “chañar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- champa
champa
1,785 corpus weight
- charlado
charlado
1,783 corpus weight
- charqui
charqui
1,782 corpus weight
- chaveta
chaveta
1,781 corpus weight
- chañar
chañar
1,780 corpus weight
- childhood
childhood
1,775 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “chañar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chañar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t͡ʃaˈɲaɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #98,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “chañar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
chañar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #98,221 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [t͡ʃaˈɲaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for chañar, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is chañar, spelled C-H-A-Ñ-A-R.
Definition
- 1(Geoffroea decorticans) Árbol de la familia de las leguminosas, de ramas espinosas, flores amarillas y un fruto dulce y comestible.
- 2Fruto de este árbol.
Synonyms
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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