ñuño
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4 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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ñuño is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Olsynium junceum, Olsynium philippii, Olsynium scirpoideum) Planta pequeña de flores amarillas orladas de un borde escarlata, tallos verde claro, de la familia de las Icacinaceae muy común en Sant... Pronounced [ˈɲuɲo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ñuño |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɲuɲo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ñuño is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɲuɲo]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Olsynium junceum, Olsynium philippii, Olsynium scirpoideum) Planta pequeña de flores amarillas orladas de un borde escarlata, tallos verde claro, de la familia de las Icacinaceae muy común en Sant...".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ñuño 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 ñuño, spelled Ñ-U-Ñ-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Olsynium junceum, Olsynium philippii, Olsynium scirpoideum) Planta pequeña de flores amarillas orladas de un borde escarlata, tallos verde claro, de la familia de las Icacinaceae muy común en Santiago de Chile, en donde antaño cubría los claros de bosque y las llanuras como una alfombra mecida por el viento.
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