chinita
[t͡ʃiˈnit̪a]
The verdict
“chinita” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #56,883 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #56,883
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Coccinella spp.) Insecto coleóptero de la familia de los crisomélidos, apreciado en la agricultura porque se alimenta de pulgones y otras plagas de las plantas. Tiene élitros de color rojo con uno...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chinita |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t͡ʃiˈnit̪a] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,883 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chinita” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for chinita is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t͡ʃiˈnit̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #56,883 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Coccinella spp.) Insecto coleóptero de la familia de los crisomélidos, apreciado en la agricultura porque se alimenta de pulgones y otras plagas de las plantas. Tiene élitros de color rojo con uno...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for chinita in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is chinita, spelled C-H-I-N-I-T-A.
Definition
- 1(Coccinella spp.) Insecto coleóptero de la familia de los crisomélidos, apreciado en la agricultura porque se alimenta de pulgones y otras plagas de las plantas. Tiene élitros de color rojo con unos vistosos puntos negros.
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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 “chinita”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-H-I-N-I-T-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [t͡ʃiˈnit̪a] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.