dueña
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,254
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
dueña is aSpanishnoun. It means: Mujer que posee algo. Pronounced [ˈd̪weɲa]. It ranks #8,254 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with dura and duma.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dueña |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈd̪weɲa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,254 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for dueña is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈd̪weɲa]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,254 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for dueña, with forms such as "ddueña", "deuña", and "dueañ". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dura", "duma", "duna", 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 dueña, spelled D-U-E-Ñ-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mujer que posee algo.
- 2Viuda encargada de vigilar y dirigir al resto de las criadas de una casa principal.
- 3Religiosa que vivía en comunidad y podía ser mujer principal.
- 4Tratamiento para una mujer casada o mujer principal.
- 5Mujer que ha sido desflorada.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddueña,deuña,dueañ,duñea,udeña
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for dueña
Misspelling Variants of "dueña"
Frequency rank: #8,254 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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