Janucá
[xanuˈka]
The verdict
“Janucá” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Festividad judaica que es celebrada durante ocho días, y en la que se conmemora la derrota de los helenos y la recuperación de la independencia judía a manos de los macabeos sobre los griegos, y la...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Janucá |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [xanuˈka] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Janucá” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Janucá is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [xanuˈka]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Festividad judaica que es celebrada durante ocho días, y en la que se conmemora la derrota de los helenos y la recuperación de la independencia judía a manos de los macabeos sobre los griegos, y la...".
No misspelling variants are generated for Janucá in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 Janucá, spelled J-A-N-U-C-Á.
Definition
- 1Festividad judaica que es celebrada durante ocho días, y en la que se conmemora la derrota de los helenos y la recuperación de la independencia judía a manos de los macabeos sobre los griegos, y la posterior purificación del Templo de Jerusalén de los iconos paganos, en el siglo II a C.
This word in other languages
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.
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Using “Janucá”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is J-A-N-U-C-Á - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [xanuˈka] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.