morriña
[moˈriɲa]
The verdict
“morriña” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #95,488 among 3,868 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,488
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sentimiento de tristeza o melancolía al recordar la tierra natal.
Corpus desk
Index ES-morrina · morriña · Spanish
morriña · rank #95,488 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,488
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH Moragas
Nearest frequency peer: Moragas (-2 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 “morriña”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- monitoreada
monitoreada
4,517 corpus weight
- monitoreados
monitoreados
4,516 corpus weight
- Moragas
Moragas
4,515 corpus weight
- morriña
morriña
4,513 corpus weight
- mouton
mouton
4,511 corpus weight
- movamos
movamos
4,510 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “morriña” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | morriña |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [moˈriɲa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,488 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “morriña” en español
Rare enough to double-check
morriña is uncommon Spanish at frequency #95,488 among 3,868 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [moˈriɲa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for morriña in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is morriña, spelled M-O-R-R-I-Ñ-A.
Definition
- 1Sentimiento de tristeza o melancolía al recordar la tierra natal.
- 2Comalia, enfermedad que afecta a los animales, especialmente a los ovinos y consiste en la acumulación de líquido en los tejidos.
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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