zanahoria
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,321
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
zanahoria is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Daucus carota) Planta herbácea bienal, de la familia de las apiáceas, que se cultiva desde finales del I milenio por su raíz comestible, de forma cónica y color habitualmente anaranjado. Es una hi... Pronounced [sanaˈoɾja]. Often confused with zanahorias.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zanahoria |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [sanaˈoɾja] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #17,321 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for zanahoria is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sanaˈoɾja]. Corpus data places it at rank #17,321 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for zanahoria, with forms such as "aznahoria", "zaanhoria", and "zanahhoria". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "zanahorias", 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 zanahoria, spelled Z-A-N-A-H-O-R-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Daucus carota) Planta herbácea bienal, de la familia de las apiáceas, que se cultiva desde finales del I milenio por su raíz comestible, de forma cónica y color habitualmente anaranjado. Es una hierba de hasta 1 m de altura, con las hojas tri- o bipinnadas, el tallo ligeramente pubescente, y densas umbelas de pequeñas flores blancas. La raíz es ligeramente dulce, rica en betacaroteno, y se consume en numerosas preparaciones, cruda y cocida. En Occidente no comenzó a emplearse hasta el siglo XV, pero ganó rápidamente popularidad y es una de las bases de numerosas salsas y caldos
- 2Por antonomasia, la raíz de esta planta usada en gastronomía
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aznahoria,zaanhoria,zanahhoria,zanahoira,zanahorai,zanahorria,zanahroia,zanaohria,zanhaoria,zannahoria,znaahoria,zzanahoria
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Misspelling Variants of "zanahoria"
Frequency rank: #17,321 in Spanish
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