ninfa
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,157
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
ninfa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Deidad femenina fabulosa que suele vivir en espacios naturales: ríos, aguas, bosques, selvas o montes. Son de una belleza extraordinaria, tienen la voz dulce y por lo general suelen vivir en compañ... Pronounced [ˈnĩɱfa]. Often confused with niño and Niza.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ninfa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnĩɱfa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #35,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ninfa is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnĩɱfa]. Corpus data places it at rank #35,157 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.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for ninfa, with forms such as "innfa", "nifna", and "ninaf". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "niño", "Niza", "nini", 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 ninfa, spelled N-I-N-F-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Deidad femenina fabulosa que suele vivir en espacios naturales: ríos, aguas, bosques, selvas o montes. Son de una belleza extraordinaria, tienen la voz dulce y por lo general suelen vivir en compañía de sus hermanas.
- 2Muchacha joven y bella.
- 3Mujer de vida licenciosa.
- 4Estadio juvenil de ciertos insectos que sufren metamorfosis simple o incompleta, como las cigarras, las cucarachas, los grillos, las langostas, las libélulas o los saltamontes, y caracterizado por una forma general de adulto pero carente de alas desarrolladas. Cuando es acuática, se denomina náyade.
- 5Nenúfar.
- 6Labios menores de la vulva.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: innfa,nifna,ninaf,ninffa,ninnfa,nnifa,nninfa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ninfa
Misspelling Variants of "ninfa"
Frequency rank: #35,157 in Spanish
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