argucia
[aɾˈɣ̞usja]
The verdict
“argucia” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #95,980 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,980
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Argumento presentado con ingenio, que parece verosímil pero que en realidad es engañoso.
Corpus desk
Index ES-argucia · argucia · Spanish
argucia · rank #95,980 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,980
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH arboladas
Nearest frequency peer: arboladas (-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 “argucia”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Araneda
Araneda
4,026 corpus weight
- arbitrios
arbitrios
4,024 corpus weight
- arboladas
arboladas
4,023 corpus weight
- argucia
argucia
4,021 corpus weight
- Arina
Arina
4,019 corpus weight
- armeros
armeros
4,017 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “argucia” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | argucia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aɾˈɣ̞usja] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “argucia” en español
Rare enough to double-check
argucia is uncommon Spanish at frequency #95,980 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [aɾˈɣ̞usja]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Argumento presentado con ingenio, que parece verosímil pero que en realidad es engañoso.".
argucia doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is argucia, spelled A-R-G-U-C-I-A.
Definition
- 1Argumento presentado con ingenio, que parece verosímil pero que en realidad es engañoso.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how argucia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«Pero yo me pregunto: ¿Pueden creer de verdad los inventores de estos ingenios que tamaña argucia puede sustituir a la caza en un próximo futuro?».
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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