regañado
[reɣ̞aˈɲað̞o]
The verdict
“regañado” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #66,465 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #66,465
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pan que se abre por el calor de la cocción o por una incisión o corte antes de llevar al horno.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | regañado |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [reɣ̞aˈɲað̞o] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “regañado” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for regañado is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [reɣ̞aˈɲað̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #66,465 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for regañado in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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 regañado, spelled R-E-G-A-Ñ-A-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pan que se abre por el calor de la cocción o por una incisión o corte antes de llevar al horno.
- 2Tipo de torta plana, similar a la pizza, que suele cubrirse de pescado o jamón y contener pimiento rojo.
- 3Expresión, con gestos y/o palabras, de enfado, disgusto o desaprobación; Acción o efecto de regañar.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “regañado”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is R-E-G-A-Ñ-A-D-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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