rana
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,480
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
rana is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cualquiera de varios centenares de especies de batracios anuros, sobre todo aquellos de la familia Ranidae. Se caracterizan por un cuerpo corto y robusto, carente de cola, con las patas traseras la... Pronounced [ˈrana]. Often confused with ron and ray.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rana |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈrana] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #11,480 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for rana is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈrana]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,480 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for rana, with forms such as "arna", "raan", and "ranna". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ron", "ray", "rap", 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 rana, spelled R-A-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cualquiera de varios centenares de especies de batracios anuros, sobre todo aquellos de la familia Ranidae. Se caracterizan por un cuerpo corto y robusto, carente de cola, con las patas traseras largas y musculosas para permitir el salto, la presencia de membranas interdigitales en las cuatro extremidades, ojos protuberantes, y una piel lisa y de aspecto húmedo. Aunque el color considerado típico es el verde, existen ranas de coloraciones muy diferentes, incluyendo vistosos amarillos, rojos y azules en algunas especies que secretan alcaloides venenosos. Los juveniles son similares a alevines, y de hábitat acuático, mientras los adultos son plenamente anfibios y se desplazan con facilidad en tierra, siendo muchas especies trepadoras. La diferencia con los sapos es coloquial y basada en la apariencia lisa de las ranas contra la rugosa de estos últimos, pero no tiene base taxonómica.
- 2Prenda de una sola pieza para niños muy pequeños, que recubre todo el cuerpo dejando libre la cabeza.
- 3Prenda para bebés que va sobre los pañales, como un calzón.
- 4Especie de juego de tejos en que la moneda o pieza debe caer en la boca de una figura con forma de rana.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: arna,raan,ranna,rnaa,rrana
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rana
Misspelling Variants of "rana"
Frequency rank: #11,480 in Spanish
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