harina

/[aˈɾina]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,624

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

18

similar word pairs

harina is aSpanishnoun. It means: Polvo resultante de moler cereales, legumbres o tubérculos comestibles ricos en almidón. Pronounced [aˈɾina]. It ranks #5,624 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with herida and hazaña.

Key facts for harina
PropertyValue
Headwordharina
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[aˈɾina]
Letters6
Frequency rank#5,624
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for harina is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈɾina]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,624 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for harina, with forms such as "ahrina", "hairna", and "harian". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "herida", "hazaña", "heroína", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 harina, spelled H-A-R-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Polvo resultante de moler cereales, legumbres o tubérculos comestibles ricos en almidón.
  2. 2
    Por extensión, residuo resultante de moler otras sustancias.
  3. 3
    Polvo resultante de moler el trigo.
  4. 4
    Preparado molido no muy fino resultante de la molienda del maíz en seco.
  5. 5
    Tipo de alimentos compuestos a base de féculas, tales como el pan, pastas, galletas, arroz, etc.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ahrina,hairna,harian,harinna,harnia,harrina,hharina,hraina

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for harina

Misspelling Variants of "harina"

ahrina6hairna6harian6harinna7harnia6harrina7hharina7hraina6
Misspelling Variants of "harina"

Frequency rank: #5,624 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "harina"?
"harina" is spelled H-A-R-I-N-A. The IPA pronunciation is [aˈɾina].
What does "harina" mean?
As a noun, "harina" means: Polvo resultante de moler cereales, legumbres o tubérculos comestibles ricos en almidón.
What words are commonly confused with "harina"?
"harina" is commonly confused with "herida", "hazaña", "heroína". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "harina"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "harina" is [aˈɾina]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "harina" come from?
"harina" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.