arcén
[aɾˈsẽn]
The verdict
“arcén” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #83,636 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,636
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zona que se delimita al extremo final de ciertas superficies, especialmente las planas (como al límite de una vía, una tela, una tabla, etc.).
Corpus desk
Index ES-arcen · arcén · Spanish
arcén · rank #83,636 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,636
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH Archiv
Nearest frequency peer: Archiv (-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 “arcén”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- apostemos
apostemos
16,370 corpus weight
- applications
applications
16,369 corpus weight
- Archiv
Archiv
16,366 corpus weight
- arcén
arcén
16,365 corpus weight
- arguello
arguello
16,362 corpus weight
- argón
argón
16,361 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “arcén” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arcén |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aɾˈsẽn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,636 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “arcén” en español
Rare enough to double-check
arcén is uncommon Spanish at frequency #83,636 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [aɾˈsẽn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for arcén in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 arcén, spelled A-R-C-É-N.
Definition
- 1Zona que se delimita al extremo final de ciertas superficies, especialmente las planas (como al límite de una vía, una tela, una tabla, etc.).
- 2Franja o margen a la orilla de una carretera, no destinada para la circulación habitual de vehículos.
- 3Baranda o antepecho que se instala alrededor de un pozo para evitar el riesgo de caer en él.
Antonyms
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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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