zahína

/[saˈina]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

zahína is aSpanishnoun. It means: Planta anual, originaria de la India, de la familia de las gramíneas, con cañas de dos a tres metros de altura, llenas de un tejido blanco y algo dulce y vellosas en los nudos; hojas lampiñas, áspe... Pronounced [saˈina].

Key facts for zahína
PropertyValue
Headwordzahína
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[saˈina]
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

zahína is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for zahína is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [saˈina]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for zahína in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 zahína, spelled Z-A-H-Í-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Planta anual, originaria de la India, de la familia de las gramíneas, con cañas de dos a tres metros de altura, llenas de un tejido blanco y algo dulce y vellosas en los nudos; hojas lampiñas, ásperas en los bordes; flores en panoja floja, grande y derecha, o espesa, arracimada y colgante, y granos mayores que los cañamones, algo rojizos, blanquecinos o amarillos. Sirven éstos para hacer pan y de alimento a las aves, y toda la planta de pasto a las vacas y otros animales.
  2. 2
    Semilla de esta planta.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "zahína"?
"zahína" is spelled Z-A-H-Í-N-A. The IPA pronunciation is [saˈina].
What does "zahína" mean?
As a noun, "zahína" means: Planta anual, originaria de la India, de la familia de las gramíneas, con cañas de dos a tres metros de altura, llenas de un tejido blanco y algo dulce y vellosas en los nudos; hojas lampiñas, áspe...
How do you pronounce "zahína"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "zahína" is [saˈina]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "zahína" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.