cizaña
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#50,146
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
cizaña is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Lolium temulentum) Planta anual de la familia de las gramíneas, cuyas cañas crecen hasta más de un metro con hojas estrechas de veinte centímetros de largo y flores en espigas terminales comprimid... Pronounced [siˈsaɲa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cizaña |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [siˈsaɲa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,146 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cizaña is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [siˈsaɲa]. Corpus data places it at rank #50,146 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cizaña 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 cizaña, spelled C-I-Z-A-Ñ-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Lolium temulentum) Planta anual de la familia de las gramíneas, cuyas cañas crecen hasta más de un metro con hojas estrechas de veinte centímetros de largo y flores en espigas terminales comprimidas con aristas agudas. Crece espontáneamente en los sembrados y la harina de su semilla puede ser venenosa, a causa de la presencia de un hongo endófito.
- 2Vicio que se mezcla entre las buenas acciones o costumbres.
- 3Cualquier cosa que hace daño a otra, maleándola o echándola a perder.
- 4Disensión o enemistad, usado generalmente con los verbos meter y sembrar.
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Frequency rank: #50,146 in Spanish
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