Spanish

[ˈspænɪʃ]

/[ˈspænɪʃ]/ noun

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The verdict

“Spanish” is uncommon German (frequency #51,696 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,696
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Sprache Spanisch

Corpus desk

Index DE-spanish · Spanish · German

Spanish · rank #51,696 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #51,696
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH spannte

Nearest frequency peer: spannte (+1 rank slots)

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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Spanish“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Spanish“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Spanish
PropertyValue
HeadwordSpanish
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈspænɪʃ]
Letters7
Frequency rank#51,696
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Spanish“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.Spanishfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „spannte“ (#51,697), „Songtext“ (#51,694), „Spaziergängen“ (#51,698). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „Spanish“ bei #51,696. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Spanish is uncommon German at frequency #51,696 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈspænɪʃ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "die Sprache Spanisch".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Spanish, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Spanish, spelled S-P-A-N-I-S-H.

Definition

  1. 1
    die Sprache Spanisch

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Spanish appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. His homework is to translate a text from Chinese to Spanish.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Spanish"?
"Spanish" is spelled S-P-A-N-I-S-H. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈspænɪʃ].
What does "Spanish" mean?
As a noun, "Spanish" means: die Sprache Spanisch
How do you pronounce "Spanish"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Spanish" is [ˈspænɪʃ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Spanish" come from?
"Spanish" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Spanish", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

spannte#51,697siedeln#51,684stinkst#51,715Seeufer#51,673

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list