chía

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for chía is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡ʃia]. Corpus data places it at rank #51,454 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Salvia hispanica) Planta herbácea de la familia de las lamiáceas. En México se le saboriza con jugos vegetales o esencias y se le consume como bebida refrescante.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for chía in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 chía, spelled C-H-Í-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.