ax
/æks/
The verdict
“ax” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #55,397 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,397
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grafía alternativa de axe.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ax · ax · Spanish
ax · rank #55,397 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,397
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH aventar
Nearest frequency peer: aventar (-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 “ax”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- avaló
avaló
44,608 corpus weight
- aventar
aventar
44,605 corpus weight
- ax
ax
44,604 corpus weight
- azucaradas
azucaradas
44,603 corpus weight
- baliza
baliza
44,602 corpus weight
- barriales
barriales
44,600 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “ax” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ax |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /æks/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #55,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “ax” en español
Rare enough to double-check
ax is uncommon Spanish at frequency #55,397 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /æks/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Grafía alternativa de axe.".
ax has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is ax, spelled A-X.
Definition
- 1Grafía alternativa de axe.
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.