uña
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,473
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
uña is aSpanishnoun. It means: Capa queratinosa (córnea) que recubre el extremo de los dedos del hombre y de algunos animales. Algunos felinos, como los gatos, tienen uñas retráctiles. Pronounced [ˈuɲa]. Often confused with us and up.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | uña |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈuɲa] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #16,473 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for uña is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈuɲa]. Corpus data places it at rank #16,473 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for uña in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "us", "up", "ur", 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 uña, spelled U-Ñ-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Capa queratinosa (córnea) que recubre el extremo de los dedos del hombre y de algunos animales. Algunos felinos, como los gatos, tienen uñas retráctiles.
- 2Utensilio para extraer puntas y clavos de distintas superficies, típicamente de la madera. Consta de una barra metálica larga en cuyos dos extremos hay practicada una curvatura, sobre la que se apalanca, después de encajar la cabeza del clavo que queda encajada en la uña que forma el extremo semejante a la pezuña de algunos animales.
- 3Cierto molusco comestible.^([definición imprecisa]).
- 4Punta de la cola del escorpión.
- 5Cada una de las puntas curvas del ancla.
- 6Espina curvada de algunas plantas.
- 7Pedazo de plástico que los músicos ponen sobre sus uñas naturales para pulsar instrumentos de cuerda como el arpa y la guitarra.
- 8Parte inicial y estrecha del pétalo de una flor.
- 9Apéndice con forma de gancho en el tarso de los insectos.
- 10Pequeño sacado o hendidura que tienen algunos instrumentos y objetos para poder tirar o empujar con la uña.
- 11Araña extremadamente venenosa de los campos chilenos.^([definición imprecisa]).
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #16,473 in Spanish
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