zonda
The verdict
“zonda” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #65,071 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #65,071
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Viento argentino, local, seco y cálido que frecuentemente sopla y lleva mucha suciedad sobre las estribaciones orientales de los Andes, en Argentina. Este viento nace en el anticiclón del océano Pa...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zonda |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsõn̪d̪a] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,071 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “zonda” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for zonda is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsõn̪d̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #65,071 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Viento argentino, local, seco y cálido que frecuentemente sopla y lleva mucha suciedad sobre las estribaciones orientales de los Andes, en Argentina. Este viento nace en el anticiclón del océano Pa...".
No misspelling variants are generated for zonda in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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 zonda, spelled Z-O-N-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Viento argentino, local, seco y cálido que frecuentemente sopla y lleva mucha suciedad sobre las estribaciones orientales de los Andes, en Argentina. Este viento nace en el anticiclón del océano Pacífico, por lo que inicia siendo un viento frío y húmedo. Luego, es desviado por el ciclón de la Precordillera y entra en la zona de mayores alturas, chocando con estas y generando lluvias orográficas y nevadas en la cima de la cordillera.
Frequency rank: #65,071 in Spanish
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Using “zonda”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is Z-O-N-D-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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