ñame
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#56,017
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
ñame is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Dioscorea spp.) Planta trepadora dioica, originaria de Asia y África, de tallos endebles y de tres a cuatro metros de largo, cultivada ampliamente por su tubérculo comestible. Pronounced [ˈɲame].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ñame |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɲame] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #56,017 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ñame is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɲame]. Corpus data places it at rank #56,017 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ñame in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 ñame, spelled Ñ-A-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Dioscorea spp.) Planta trepadora dioica, originaria de Asia y África, de tallos endebles y de tres a cuatro metros de largo, cultivada ampliamente por su tubérculo comestible.
- 2Tubérculo de esta planta, utilizado como alimento rico en fécula y proteínas. Es un cultivo de suma importancia en África y Oceanía.
- 3Por analogía, otras plantas tuberosas, en especial la mandioca o casaba (Manihot esculenta).
- 4Persona sin instrucción o de escasa inteligencia.
- 5Persona irracional, de conducta descabellada.
- 6Manera vulgar de denominar los pies de una persona
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Frequency rank: #56,017 in Spanish
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