arlequín
[aɾleˈkĩn]
The verdict
“arlequín” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #60,546 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,546
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personaje típico de la comedia del arte, un bufón pobre y astuto vestido con un traje a rombos de colores
Corpus desk
Index ES-arlequin · arlequín · Spanish
arlequín · rank #60,546 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,546
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH aridez
Nearest frequency peer: aridez (-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 “arlequín”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- arcano
arcano
39,458 corpus weight
- arcanos
arcanos
39,457 corpus weight
- aridez
aridez
39,456 corpus weight
- arlequín
arlequín
39,455 corpus weight
- Arles
Arles
39,454 corpus weight
- arrestadas
arrestadas
39,453 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “arlequín” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arlequín |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aɾleˈkĩn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,546 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “arlequín” en español
Rare enough to double-check
arlequín is uncommon Spanish at frequency #60,546 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [aɾleˈkĩn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
arlequín doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 arlequín, spelled A-R-L-E-Q-U-Í-N.
Definition
- 1Personaje típico de la comedia del arte, un bufón pobre y astuto vestido con un traje a rombos de colores
- 2Persona, especialmente actor, que viste un disfraz de arlequín₁
- 3Bastidor vertical que marca el lateral del escenario teatral
- 4Sorbete de varios colores
- 5Tejido de lana de varios colores
- 6Persona de aspecto abigarrado y ridículo
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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