mañana

/[maˈɲana]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#269

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

mañana is aSpanishnoun. It means: Lapso que transcurre desde la salida del sol hasta el mediodía. Pronounced [maˈɲana]. It ranks #269 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Mann and Manda.

Key facts for mañana
PropertyValue
Headwordmañana
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[maˈɲana]
Letters6
Frequency rank#269
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for mañana is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maˈɲana]. Corpus data places it at rank #269 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for mañana, with forms such as "amñana", "maañna", and "mañaan". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Mann", "Manda", "manga", 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 mañana, spelled M-A-Ñ-A-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lapso que transcurre desde la salida del sol hasta el mediodía.
  2. 2
    Más generalmente, tiempo que transcurre desde la medianoche hasta el mediodía.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: amñana,maañna,mañaan,mañanna,mañnaa,mmañana,mñaana

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mañana

Misspelling Variants of "mañana"

amñana6maañna6mañaan6mañanna7mañnaa6mmañana7mñaana6
Misspelling Variants of "mañana"

Frequency rank: #269 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mañana"?
"mañana" is spelled M-A-Ñ-A-N-A. The IPA pronunciation is [maˈɲana].
What does "mañana" mean?
As a noun, "mañana" means: Lapso que transcurre desde la salida del sol hasta el mediodía.
What words are commonly confused with "mañana"?
"mañana" is commonly confused with "Mann", "Manda", "manga". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mañana"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mañana" is [maˈɲana]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mañana" come from?
"mañana" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Other entries that begin with the letter M in our Spanish index:

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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.