musaraña
[musaˈɾaɲa]
The verdict
“musaraña” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cualquiera de las especies de la familia soricidae. Son mamíferos de apariencia similar al ratón, pero sin ser roedores.
Corpus desk
Index ES-musarana · musaraña · Spanish
musaraña · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | musaraña |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [musaˈɾaɲa] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “musaraña” en español
Rare enough to double-check
musaraña is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [musaˈɾaɲa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cualquiera de las especies de la familia soricidae. Son mamíferos de apariencia similar al ratón, pero sin ser roedores.".
No misspelling variants are generated for musaraña in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is musaraña, spelled M-U-S-A-R-A-Ñ-A.
Definition
- 1Cualquiera de las especies de la familia soricidae. Son mamíferos de apariencia similar al ratón, pero sin ser roedores.
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.