across
/əˈkɹɒs/
The verdict
“across” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #52,029 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a preposition. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,029
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - De un lado a otro de, a través de.
Corpus desk
Index ES-across · across · Spanish
across · rank #52,029 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,029
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH acogiendo
Nearest frequency peer: acogiendo (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “across”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- acata
acata
47,975 corpus weight
- acetona
acetona
47,974 corpus weight
- acogiendo
acogiendo
47,973 corpus weight
- across
across
47,972 corpus weight
- activarse
activarse
47,971 corpus weight
- acuñada
acuñada
47,970 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “across” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | across |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | /əˈkɹɒs/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,029 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “across” en español
Rare enough to double-check
across is uncommon Spanish at frequency #52,029 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as apreposition, transcribed /əˈkɹɒs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
across has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented 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 across, spelled A-C-R-O-S-S.
Definition
- 1De un lado a otro de, a través de.
- 2En contacto con.
- 3Al otro lado de.
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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