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Warning: this article contains a couple of raunchy words.
As you can see in some of the examples below, you have to be very careful when saying some of these words. It’s similar to the common pronunciation mistake of Spanish-speaking people trying to say beach, but ending up sounding like bitch. Something similar could happen to you in Spanish, so watch out.
| N | Ñ | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ano | anus | año | year; that’s why it’s so important to say cumpleaÑos (birthday) correctly! |
| campana | bell | campaña | campaign |
| cana | gray hair, white hair | caña | cane, reed |
| cano | a man with gray/white hair, also a common last name, | caño | pipes, sewage |
| ceno | from cenar, to dine | ceño | brow, frown |
| cono | cone | coño | cunt (vulg.), jeez, hell (I must point out that, in Mexico, this word is often used on TV comedy shows to imitate the vocabulary people from Spain and the Caribbean use. In other words, in Mexico, this is not such a bad word, it’s just foreign) |
| cuna | crib, cradle | cuña | wedge |
| empanado | from pan, breaded, covered with crumbs | empañado | steamed up (window, mirror, glasses) |
| mono | monkey, cute (adj.) | moño | bow (ribbon), bun (hair) |
| ordenar | to organize | ordeñar | to milk a cow, etc. |
| panal | beehive, honeycomb | pañal | diaper |
| pena | sorrow, pitty, shame, sadness, sentence, embarrassment | peña | big rock; club or association; also a common last name. |
| sana | from sanar, to heal; healthy | saña | viciousness |
| suena | from sonar, to sound, to ring | sueña | from soñar, to dream |
| una | one, a (feminine indefinite article or pronoun) | uña | finger/toe nail |
This song lists many words containing ñ.
Originally published on 20100524. Latest update on 20210406 (spanishNY.com) top
