arenque
[aˈɾẽŋke]
The verdict
“arenque” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #68,293 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #68,293
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Clupea) Género que abarca unas 15 especies de peces teleósteos, de color azul, nativos de las aguas templadas y poco profundas del océano Atlántico y el mar Báltico. Llegan a medir hasta 45 cm de ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arenque |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈɾẽŋke] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,293 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “arenque” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for arenque is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈɾẽŋke]. Corpus data places it at rank #68,293 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Clupea) Género que abarca unas 15 especies de peces teleósteos, de color azul, nativos de las aguas templadas y poco profundas del océano Atlántico y el mar Báltico. Llegan a medir hasta 45 cm de ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for arenque in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists 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 arenque, spelled A-R-E-N-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1(Clupea) Género que abarca unas 15 especies de peces teleósteos, de color azul, nativos de las aguas templadas y poco profundas del océano Atlántico y el mar Báltico. Llegan a medir hasta 45 cm de largo.
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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Using “arenque”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-R-E-N-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [aˈɾẽŋke] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.