vaina
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,891
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
vaina is aSpanishnoun. It means: Funda en la que se guardan los cuchillos y otras armas blancas Pronounced [ˈbajna]. It ranks #8,891 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with van and vía.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vaina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbajna] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,891 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for vaina is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbajna]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,891 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for vaina, with forms such as "avina", "baina", and "vaian". 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, "van", "vía", "vin", 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 vaina, spelled V-A-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Funda en la que se guardan los cuchillos y otras armas blancas
- 2Envoltura metálica que contiene la carga de un cartucho o bala
- 3Envoltura alargada y tierna de las semillas de las plantas leguminosas
- 4Ensanchamiento del pecíolo de ciertas hojas que envuelve el tallo
- 5Fruto seco dehiscente y bivalvo, de muchas semillas, característico de las leguminosas
- 6Refuerzo a modo de funda que se cose a las caídas de una vela o enseña
- 7Objeto cuyo nombre se desconoce, se ha olvidado o resulta irrelevante
- 8Fruto inmaduro de la planta de judía (Phaseolus vulgaris), una legumbre de color verde, con semillas no completamente desarrolladas, apta para el consumo humano
- 9Cóctel elaborado a base de vino tinto dulce, crema de cacao, coñac o vermut, pisco y yema de huevo espolvoreado con canela molida.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: avina,baina,vaian,vainna,vania,vvaina
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vaina
Misspelling Variants of "vaina"
Frequency rank: #8,891 in Spanish
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