amicus
/aˈmiː.kus/
The verdict
“amicus” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #90,576 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,576
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Amistoso, amigable, amable.
Corpus desk
Index ES-amicus · amicus · Spanish
amicus · rank #90,576 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,576
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH amontonar
Nearest frequency peer: amontonar (+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 “amicus”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- alim
alim
9,428 corpus weight
- almanaques
almanaques
9,427 corpus weight
- amicus
amicus
9,425 corpus weight
- amontonar
amontonar
9,424 corpus weight
- anestesiólo…
anestesiólogo
9,423 corpus weight
- anglicismos
anglicismos
9,422 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “amicus” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amicus |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /aˈmiː.kus/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,576 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “amicus” en español
Rare enough to double-check
amicus is uncommon Spanish at frequency #90,576 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /aˈmiː.kus/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
amicus doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is amicus, spelled A-M-I-C-U-S.
Definition
- 1Amistoso, amigable, amable.
- 2Grato, agradable, placentero.
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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