asking
/ˈɑːskɪŋ/
The verdict
“asking” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #79,775 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,775
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participio presente y gerundio del verbo (to) ask.
Corpus desk
Index ES-asking · asking · Spanish
asking · rank #79,775 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,775
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH asimétricos
Nearest frequency peer: asimétricos (-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 “asking”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- asfaltadas
asfaltadas
20,230 corpus weight
- asienten
asienten
20,228 corpus weight
- asimétricos
asimétricos
20,227 corpus weight
- asking
asking
20,226 corpus weight
- astrolabio
astrolabio
20,224 corpus weight
- asumían
asumían
20,222 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “asking” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | asking |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈɑːskɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,775 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “asking” en español
Rare enough to double-check
asking is uncommon Spanish at frequency #79,775 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈɑːskɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participio presente y gerundio del verbo (to) ask.".
Zero misspellings are on record for asking in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 asking, spelled A-S-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Participio presente y gerundio del verbo (to) ask.
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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