guadaña
[gwaˈð̞aɲa]
The verdict
“guadaña” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #52,297 among 1,728 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,297
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 'Cuchilla ensartada para segar la hierba', princ. S. XV (Corominas)
Corpus desk
Index ES-guadana · guadaña · Spanish
guadaña · rank #52,297 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,297
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH Guam
Nearest frequency peer: Guam (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “guadaña”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Geraldo
Geraldo
47,709 corpus weight
- Germania
Germania
47,708 corpus weight
- gets
gets
47,707 corpus weight
- guadaña
guadaña
47,704 corpus weight
- Guam
Guam
47,703 corpus weight
- guri
guri
47,700 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “guadaña” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guadaña |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [gwaˈð̞aɲa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,297 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “guadaña” en español
Rare enough to double-check
guadaña is uncommon Spanish at frequency #52,297 among 1,728 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [gwaˈð̞aɲa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for guadaña in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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. The correct Spanish form is guadaña, spelled G-U-A-D-A-Ñ-A.
Definition
- 1'Cuchilla ensartada para segar la hierba', princ. S. XV (Corominas)
- 2Instrumento para segar, que se maneja con ambas manos, formado por una hoja larga y curvilínea, puntiaguda por un lado y sujeta por el otro, más ancho, a un mango largo que forma ángulo con el plano de la hoja y lleva dos manijas, una en el extremo y otra en el segundo tercio del mismo. (RAE)
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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