ahorca
[aˈoɾka]
The verdict
“ahorca” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #84,521 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,521
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de ahorcar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ahorca · ahorca · Spanish
ahorca · rank #84,521 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,521
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH airadamente
Nearest frequency peer: airadamente (+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 “ahorca”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- agrandada
agrandada
15,484 corpus weight
- agrupamient…
agrupamientos
15,482 corpus weight
- ahorca
ahorca
15,480 corpus weight
- airadamente
airadamente
15,479 corpus weight
- aireación
aireación
15,478 corpus weight
- albero
albero
15,475 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “ahorca” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ahorca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [aˈoɾka] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,521 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “ahorca” en español
Rare enough to double-check
ahorca is uncommon Spanish at frequency #84,521 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [aˈoɾka]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
ahorca doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 ahorca, spelled A-H-O-R-C-A.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de ahorcar.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de ahorcar.
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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