envainar
[ẽmbajˈnaɾ]
The verdict
“envainar” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Guardar un arma blanca en su funda o vaina.
Corpus desk
Index ES-envainar · envainar · Spanish
envainar · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | envainar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽmbajˈnaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “envainar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
envainar is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ẽmbajˈnaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for envainar in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is envainar, spelled E-N-V-A-I-N-A-R.
Definition
- 1Guardar un arma blanca en su funda o vaina.
- 2Guardar cualquier otra cosa en su funda, a modo de vaina.
- 3Meter a una persona en problemas o líos (vainas).
- 4Causar daño, molestia o fastidio.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.