gatuña
[gaˈt̪uɲa]
The verdict
“gatuña” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Planta herbácea de la familia de las leguminosas, con tallos ramosos, delgados, casi tendidos, duros y espinosos, hojas compuestas de tres hojuelas pequeñas, elípticas y dentadas; flores solitarias...
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Index ES-gatuna · gatuña · Spanish
gatuña · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" 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 | gatuña |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [gaˈt̪uɲa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “gatuña” en español
Rare enough to double-check
gatuña is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [gaˈt̪uɲa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Planta herbácea de la familia de las leguminosas, con tallos ramosos, delgados, casi tendidos, duros y espinosos, hojas compuestas de tres hojuelas pequeñas, elípticas y dentadas; flores solitarias...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gatuña, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is gatuña, spelled G-A-T-U-Ñ-A.
Definition
- 1Planta herbácea de la familia de las leguminosas, con tallos ramosos, delgados, casi tendidos, duros y espinosos, hojas compuestas de tres hojuelas pequeñas, elípticas y dentadas; flores solitarias, axilares, rojizas o blancas, y fruto en vainillas ovales, con pocas semillas. Es muy común en los sembrados, y la raíz se ha empleado como aperitivo.
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.