yana
[ˈʝana]
The verdict
“yana” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #67,390 among 1,840 “Y” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,390
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,840
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Conocarpus erectus) Árbol tropical cosmopolita de la familia de las combretáceas, de tronco tortuoso parecido al mangle, corteza gris, hojas alternas, simples, oblongas, de hasta 10 cm de largo, e...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yana |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʝana] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,390 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “yana” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
yana is uncommon Spanish at frequency #67,390 among 1,840 “Y” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʝana]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Conocarpus erectus) Árbol tropical cosmopolita de la familia de las combretáceas, de tronco tortuoso parecido al mangle, corteza gris, hojas alternas, simples, oblongas, de hasta 10 cm de largo, e...".
yana doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is yana, spelled Y-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1(Conocarpus erectus) Árbol tropical cosmopolita de la familia de las combretáceas, de tronco tortuoso parecido al mangle, corteza gris, hojas alternas, simples, oblongas, de hasta 10 cm de largo, e inflorescencia en panícula que fructifica en numerosas sámaras.
This word in other languages
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 “yana”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is Y-A-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.