araucano
[aɾawˈkano]
The verdict
“araucano” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #78,861 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,861
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Originario, relativo a, o propio de la Araucanía o Arauco.
Corpus desk
Index ES-araucano · araucano · Spanish
araucano · rank #78,861 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,861
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH apropiaciones
Nearest frequency peer: apropiaciones (-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 “araucano”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- apostólicas
apostólicas
21,144 corpus weight
- apropiacion…
apropiaciones
21,142 corpus weight
- araucano
araucano
21,140 corpus weight
- ardían
ardían
21,137 corpus weight
- Aroca
Aroca
21,136 corpus weight
- arrendadas
arrendadas
21,135 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “araucano” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | araucano |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [aɾawˈkano] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,861 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “araucano” en español
Rare enough to double-check
araucano is uncommon Spanish at frequency #78,861 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [aɾawˈkano]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for araucano, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 araucano, spelled A-R-A-U-C-A-N-O.
Definition
- 1Originario, relativo a, o propio de la Araucanía o Arauco.
- 2Mapuche.
This word in other languages
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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