sirena
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,712
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
sirena is aSpanishnoun. It means: Ser fabuloso, parte mujer y parte ave, que atraía a los marineros a la perdición con su canto. Pronounced [siˈɾena]. Often confused with suena and Siria.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sirena |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [siˈɾena] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sirena is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [siˈɾena]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,712 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for sirena, with forms such as "cirena", "isrena", and "sierna". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "suena", "Siria", "sirva", 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 sirena, spelled S-I-R-E-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ser fabuloso, parte mujer y parte ave, que atraía a los marineros a la perdición con su canto.
- 2Por confusión, ser fabuloso con busto de mujer y parte inferior de pez.
- 3Por analogía con el canto de las sirenas₁, instrumento acústico que produce un número variable de vibraciones por período.
- 4En particular, sirena₃ de sonido agudo y penetrante, empleado como señal de alarma o aviso.
- 5Mujer que tiene como característica practicar deportes acuáticos (natación, saltos, natación artística) o simpplemente que le gusta mucho el agua y sabe nadar excelentemente.
- 6Dícese de la mujer con olor característico similar al pescado manido debido a mala higiene o infección íntima por Garnderella.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cirena,isrena,sierna,sirean,sirenna,sirnea,sirrena,sriena,ssirena
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "sirena"
Frequency rank: #14,712 in Spanish
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