guaraná

/[gwaɾaˈna]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#90,976

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

guaraná is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Paullinia cupana) Arbusto trepador de la familia de las sapindáceas, nativo de la cuenca del Amazonas, monoico, de hojas grandes de forma lanceolada y margen serrado, flores cigomorfas, pentámeras... Pronounced [gwaɾaˈna].

Key facts for guaraná
PropertyValue
Headwordguaraná
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[gwaɾaˈna]
Letters7
Frequency rank#90,976
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for guaraná is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [gwaɾaˈna]. Corpus data places it at rank #90,976 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

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

Definition

  1. 1
    (Paullinia cupana) Arbusto trepador de la familia de las sapindáceas, nativo de la cuenca del Amazonas, monoico, de hojas grandes de forma lanceolada y margen serrado, flores cigomorfas, pentámeras, fruto rojo en cápsula conteniendo tres semillas de color oscuro. Se cultiva desde época precolombina para aprovechar sus semillas.
  2. 2
    Pasta de semillas de guaraná₁, usada en la preparación de bebidas estimulantes.
  3. 3
    Bebida preparada con guaraná₂ en solución.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #90,976 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "guaraná"?
"guaraná" is spelled G-U-A-R-A-N-Á. The IPA pronunciation is [gwaɾaˈna].
What does "guaraná" mean?
As a noun, "guaraná" means: (Paullinia cupana) Arbusto trepador de la familia de las sapindáceas, nativo de la cuenca del Amazonas, monoico, de hojas grandes de forma lanceolada y margen serrado, flores cigomorfas, pentámeras...
How do you pronounce "guaraná"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "guaraná" is [gwaɾaˈna]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "guaraná" come from?
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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.