gardenia

/[gaɾˈð̞enja]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#86,827

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

gardenia is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Gardenia) Arbusto chino de hojas perenes de color verde claro, brillantes y lisas. Sus flores son blancas, similares a las rosas y se usan comúnmente como plantas ornamentales. Una flor, colocada ... Pronounced [gaɾˈð̞enja].

Key facts for gardenia
PropertyValue
Headwordgardenia
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[gaɾˈð̞enja]
Letters8
Frequency rank#86,827
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of gardenia in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for gardenia is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [gaɾˈð̞enja]. Corpus data places it at rank #86,827 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for gardenia 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 gardenia, spelled G-A-R-D-E-N-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Gardenia) Arbusto chino de hojas perenes de color verde claro, brillantes y lisas. Sus flores son blancas, similares a las rosas y se usan comúnmente como plantas ornamentales. Una flor, colocada en un vaso con agua, puede perfumar con un intenso y agradable aroma una habitación durante un par de días.
  2. 2
    Flor de la gardenia.

Frequency rank: #86,827 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gardenia"?
"gardenia" is spelled G-A-R-D-E-N-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is [gaɾˈð̞enja].
What does "gardenia" mean?
As a noun, "gardenia" means: (Gardenia) Arbusto chino de hojas perenes de color verde claro, brillantes y lisas. Sus flores son blancas, similares a las rosas y se usan comúnmente como plantas ornamentales. Una flor, colocada ...
How do you pronounce "gardenia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gardenia" is [gaɾˈð̞enja]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.