fanega
Letters
6 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
fanega is aSpanishnoun. It means: Medida de volumen tradicional de España, para granos, legumbres y otros áridos, equivalente a 55,5 litros o doce celemines en Castilla (varía por región). Pronounced [faˈneɣ̞a].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fanega |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [faˈneɣ̞a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for fanega is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [faˈneɣ̞a]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for fanega in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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 fanega, spelled F-A-N-E-G-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Medida de volumen tradicional de España, para granos, legumbres y otros áridos, equivalente a 55,5 litros o doce celemines en Castilla (varía por región).
- 2Cantidad de granos o áridos que cabe en una fanega₁.
- 3Cantidad equivalente a 20 cajuelas de cerezas de café, cada una de unos 12,9 kilogramos, para un peso total de 258 kilos, produciendo un saco de aproximadamente 46 kg de café oro (seco, listo para la exportación).
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