zahína
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6 characters
Language
Spanish
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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].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zahína |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [saˈina] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Planta 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.
- 2Semilla de esta planta.
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