accent
/ˈæk.sənt/
The verdict
“accent” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #81,628 among 120,137 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,628
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 120,137
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Acento.
Corpus desk
Index ES-accent · accent · Spanish
accent · rank #81,628 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,628
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 120,137
- PHOTO-FINISH aceleraba
Nearest frequency peer: aceleraba (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “accent”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- abogaban
abogaban
18,378 corpus weight
- abolidas
abolidas
18,377 corpus weight
- accent
accent
18,373 corpus weight
- aceleraba
aceleraba
18,372 corpus weight
- acercarán
acercarán
18,371 corpus weight
- acicate
acicate
18,370 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “accent” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accent |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈæk.sənt/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #81,628 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “accent” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
accent is uncommon Spanish at frequency #81,628 among 120,137 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈæk.sənt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Acento.".
accent has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is accent, spelled A-C-C-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Acento.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.