barista
[baˈɾist̪a]
The verdict
“barista” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #72,533 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #72,533
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Profesional especializado en el café de alta calidad, que trabaja creando nuevas y diferentes bebidas basadas en él, usando varios tipos de leches, esencias y licores, entre otros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barista |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [baˈɾist̪a] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,533 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “barista” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for barista is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [baˈɾist̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #72,533 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Profesional especializado en el café de alta calidad, que trabaja creando nuevas y diferentes bebidas basadas en él, usando varios tipos de leches, esencias y licores, entre otros.".
Zero misspellings are on record for barista in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is barista, spelled B-A-R-I-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1Profesional especializado en el café de alta calidad, que trabaja creando nuevas y diferentes bebidas basadas en él, usando varios tipos de leches, esencias y licores, entre otros.
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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Using “barista”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-A-R-I-S-T-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [baˈɾist̪a] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.