roña
The verdict
“roña” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #72,283 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #72,283
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Enfermedad de las plantas causada por un hongo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roña |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈroɲa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #72,283 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “roña” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for roña is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈroɲa]. Corpus data places it at rank #72,283 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 18 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for roña 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 roña, spelled R-O-Ñ-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Enfermedad de las plantas causada por un hongo.
- 2Sarna (enfermedad de la piel causada por un ácaro) del ganado de los animales con lana.
- 3Suciedad y porquería pegada fuertemente, que afea el aspecto de algo.
- 4Orín de los metales.
- 5Daño moral que se comunica o puede comunicarse de unos en otros.
- 6Roñería, picardía.
- 7Persona mezquina.
- 8Farsa, treta, maula.
- 9Corteza del pino.
- 10Pericarpio.
- 11Aspereza, rugosidad.
- 12Musgo de las cortezas de los árboles.
- 13Pimiento de redrojo.
- 14Tiña (juego infantil).
- 15Simulación o actuación de una enfermedad con el fin de no trabajar.
- 16Conjunto de monedas que el padrino de un bautizo les arroja a los muchachos a la rebatiña.
- 17Viruela.
- 18Pereza, lentitud o flojera para hacer cosas.
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 “roña”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is R-O-Ñ-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈroɲa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Nearby Spanish words
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