kuna
[ˈkuna]
The verdict
“kuna” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #81,120 among 3,662 “K” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,120
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,662
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nación o etnia amerindia que habita en zonas de Panamá y el noroeste de Colombia, especialmente en la región de Guna Yala (antes San Blas). A ellos se debe el nombre Abya Yala, elegido en 1992 como...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kuna |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈkuna] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #81,120 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “kuna” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
kuna is uncommon Spanish at frequency #81,120 among 3,662 “K” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈkuna]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nación o etnia amerindia que habita en zonas de Panamá y el noroeste de Colombia, especialmente en la región de Guna Yala (antes San Blas). A ellos se debe el nombre Abya Yala, elegido en 1992 como...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for kuna, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is kuna, spelled K-U-N-A.
Definition
- 1Nación o etnia amerindia que habita en zonas de Panamá y el noroeste de Colombia, especialmente en la región de Guna Yala (antes San Blas). A ellos se debe el nombre Abya Yala, elegido en 1992 como designación alternativa que algunos movimientos de pueblos originarios emplean para el continente en que habitan, el que los europeos denominaron las Indias Occidentales o América.
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); 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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Using “kuna”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is K-U-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈkuna] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.