begin
/bɪˈɡɪn/
The verdict
“begin” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #62,113 among 2,459 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,113
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Empezar, comenzar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-begin · begin · Spanish
begin · rank #62,113 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,113
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH bañándose
Nearest frequency peer: bañándose (-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 “begin”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- barberos
barberos
37,892 corpus weight
- Baruch
Baruch
37,890 corpus weight
- bañándose
bañándose
37,889 corpus weight
- begin
begin
37,888 corpus weight
- Belaúnde
Belaúnde
37,887 corpus weight
- besen
besen
37,885 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “begin” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | begin |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /bɪˈɡɪn/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,113 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “begin” en español
Rare enough to double-check
begin is uncommon Spanish at frequency #62,113 among 2,459 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /bɪˈɡɪn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Empezar, comenzar.".
begin has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is begin, spelled B-E-G-I-N.
Definition
- 1Empezar, comenzar.
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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