quinoa
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#61,095
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
quinoa is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Chenopodium quinoa) Planta anual, de tallo erecto, que puede medir hasta 3 m de altura. Las hojas, alternas, son anchas y polimorfas; el tallo central puede estar más o menos ramificado, dependien... Pronounced [kiˈnoa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quinoa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kiˈnoa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,095 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for quinoa is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kiˈnoa]. Corpus data places it at rank #61,095 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for quinoa 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 quinoa, spelled Q-U-I-N-O-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Chenopodium quinoa) Planta anual, de tallo erecto, que puede medir hasta 3 m de altura. Las hojas, alternas, son anchas y polimorfas; el tallo central puede estar más o menos ramificado, dependiendo de la variedad o densidad del sembrado. Las flores, organizadas en panículas, son pequeñas y carecen de pétalos.
- 2Semilla de unos 2 mm de diámetro, lenticulares con abundante perisperma harinoso.
Synonyms
Frequency rank: #61,095 in Spanish
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