ascuas
[ˈaskwas]
The verdict
“ascuas” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #65,880 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,880
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exclamación para indicar sorpresa, dolor o extrañeza.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ascuas · ascuas · Spanish
ascuas · rank #65,880 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,880
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH asidero
Nearest frequency peer: asidero (+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 “ascuas”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- arribando
arribando
34,125 corpus weight
- Arteta
Arteta
34,123 corpus weight
- ascuas
ascuas
34,121 corpus weight
- asidero
asidero
34,120 corpus weight
- asturianas
asturianas
34,118 corpus weight
- asumas
asumas
34,117 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “ascuas” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ascuas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ˈaskwas] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,880 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “ascuas” en español
Rare enough to double-check
ascuas is uncommon Spanish at frequency #65,880 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed [ˈaskwas]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Exclamación para indicar sorpresa, dolor o extrañeza.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ascuas in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is ascuas, spelled A-S-C-U-A-S.
Definition
- 1Exclamación para indicar sorpresa, dolor o extrañeza.
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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