apuñalan
[apuˈɲalãn]
The verdict
“apuñalan” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #74,249 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,249
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de apuñalar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-apunalan · apuñalan · Spanish
apuñalan · rank #74,249 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,249
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH aprobase
Nearest frequency peer: aprobase (-2 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 “apuñalan”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Antoinette
Antoinette
25,757 corpus weight
- apliquemos
apliquemos
25,756 corpus weight
- aprobase
aprobase
25,754 corpus weight
- apuñalan
apuñalan
25,752 corpus weight
- Arcila
Arcila
25,750 corpus weight
- argumentati…
argumentativa
25,749 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “apuñalan” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apuñalan |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [apuˈɲalãn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,249 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “apuñalan” en español
Rare enough to double-check
apuñalan is uncommon Spanish at frequency #74,249 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [apuˈɲalãn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de apuñalar.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for apuñalan in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is apuñalan, spelled A-P-U-Ñ-A-L-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de apuñalar.
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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