arenque
[aˈɾẽŋke]
The verdict
“arenque” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #68,293 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,293
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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 ...
Corpus desk
Index ES-arenque · arenque · Spanish
arenque · rank #68,293 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,293
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH archivadas
Nearest frequency peer: archivadas (-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 “arenque”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- aproximando
aproximando
31,712 corpus weight
- archivadas
archivadas
31,709 corpus weight
- arenque
arenque
31,708 corpus weight
- argumentaban
argumentaban
31,707 corpus weight
- armiño
armiño
31,705 corpus weight
- armonizado
armonizado
31,704 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “arenque” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cola larga: rango de “arenque” en español
Rare enough to double-check
arenque is uncommon Spanish at frequency #68,293 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [aˈɾẽŋke]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(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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