kuna
[ˈkuna]
The verdict
“kuna” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #81,120 among 248 “K” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,120
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 248
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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...
Corpus desk
Index ES-kuna · kuna · Spanish
kuna · rank #81,120 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,120
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 248
- PHOTO-FINISH kuka
Nearest frequency peer: kuka (-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 “kuna”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- kinesiología
kinesiología
18,885 corpus weight
- kuka
kuka
18,882 corpus weight
- kuna
kuna
18,881 corpus weight
- Lasse
Lasse
18,879 corpus weight
- lavaban
lavaban
18,878 corpus weight
- lavatorio
lavatorio
18,876 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “kuna” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cola larga: rango de “kuna” en español
Rare enough to double-check
kuna is uncommon Spanish at frequency #81,120 among 248 “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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