bastard
/ˈbæstəɹd/
The verdict
“bastard” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #89,597 among 2,459 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,597
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bastardo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-bastard · bastard · Spanish
bastard · rank #89,597 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,597
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH baremos
Nearest frequency peer: baremos (-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 “bastard”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Banegas
Banegas
10,408 corpus weight
- baní
baní
10,407 corpus weight
- baremos
baremos
10,405 corpus weight
- bastard
bastard
10,404 corpus weight
- batidor
batidor
10,403 corpus weight
- bautizan
bautizan
10,402 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “bastard” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bastard |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbæstəɹd/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “bastard” en español
Rare enough to double-check
bastard is uncommon Spanish at frequency #89,597 among 2,459 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbæstəɹd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bastard, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is bastard, spelled B-A-S-T-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Bastardo.
- 2Hijo de puta.
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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