cuña
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#24,091
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cuña is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pequeña pieza de madera o metal, con un borde más delgado, que se introduce entre otras dos piezas para ajustarlas, ensamblarlas, partirlas, separarlas o apretarlas. Pronounced [ˈkuɲa]. Often confused with cup and cut.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuña |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkuɲa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #24,091 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cuña is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkuɲa]. Corpus data places it at rank #24,091 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for cuña, with forms such as "ccuña", "cuañ", and "cñua". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cup", "cut", "cuyo", 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 cuña, spelled C-U-Ñ-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pequeña pieza de madera o metal, con un borde más delgado, que se introduce entre otras dos piezas para ajustarlas, ensamblarlas, partirlas, separarlas o apretarlas.
- 2Motivo de distanciamiento entre dos personas, introducido por un tercero.
- 3Grabación corta de un pedazo de entrevista o declaraciones, que se usa como forma ilustrativa en medios radiales, comúnmente en los noticiarios.
- 4Persona o relación que favorece a otro en la búsqueda de un empleo o en una diligencia burocrática.
- 5Comercial de televisión.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccuña,cuañ,cñua,ucña
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cuña
Misspelling Variants of "cuña"
Frequency rank: #24,091 in Spanish
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