zunzún
[sũnˈsũn]
The verdict
“zunzún” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Chlorostilbon ricordii) Pájaro pequeño, de unos 6 cm de longitud, que es la especie más pequeña de la familia de los colibríes.
Corpus desk
Index ES-zunzun · zunzún · Spanish
zunzún · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Z" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zunzún |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [sũnˈsũn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “zunzún” en español
Rare enough to double-check
zunzún is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [sũnˈsũn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Chlorostilbon ricordii) Pájaro pequeño, de unos 6 cm de longitud, que es la especie más pequeña de la familia de los colibríes.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for zunzún, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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. The correct Spanish form is zunzún, spelled Z-U-N-Z-Ú-N.
Definition
- 1(Chlorostilbon ricordii) Pájaro pequeño, de unos 6 cm de longitud, que es la especie más pequeña de la familia de los colibríes.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.