asylum
/əˈsaɪləm/
The verdict
“asylum” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #69,132 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,132
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Asilo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-asylum · asylum · Spanish
asylum · rank #69,132 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,132
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH asocien
Nearest frequency peer: asocien (-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 “asylum”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- aseguraremos
aseguraremos
30,872 corpus weight
- asentimiento
asentimiento
30,871 corpus weight
- asocien
asocien
30,870 corpus weight
- asylum
asylum
30,869 corpus weight
- atenemos
atenemos
30,867 corpus weight
- atorados
atorados
30,866 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “asylum” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | asylum |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈsaɪləm/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,132 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “asylum” en español
Rare enough to double-check
asylum is uncommon Spanish at frequency #69,132 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /əˈsaɪləm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for asylum in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is asylum, spelled A-S-Y-L-U-M.
Definition
- 1Asilo.
- 2Manicomio.
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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