ahead
/əˈhɛd/
The verdict
“ahead” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #62,049 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,049
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A la cabeza.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ahead · ahead · Spanish
ahead · rank #62,049 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,049
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH agroalimentar…
Nearest frequency peer: agroalimentaria (-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 “ahead”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- afinando
afinando
37,955 corpus weight
- agregarse
agregarse
37,954 corpus weight
- agroaliment…
agroalimentaria
37,953 corpus weight
- ahead
ahead
37,952 corpus weight
- aislantes
aislantes
37,950 corpus weight
- Aladino
Aladino
37,949 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “ahead” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ahead |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /əˈhɛd/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,049 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “ahead” en español
Rare enough to double-check
ahead is uncommon Spanish at frequency #62,049 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed /əˈhɛd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ahead, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is ahead, spelled A-H-E-A-D.
Definition
- 1A la cabeza.
- 2Al frente.
- 3Hacia adelante.
- 4En el futuro o hacia el futuro.
- 5Hacia el éxito.
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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