bencina
[bẽnˈsina]
The verdict
“bencina” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #62,856 among 2,459 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,856
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mezcla de varios hidrocarburos, obtenida por destilación del alquitrán de la hulla, de los petróleos, etc., que se emplea especialmente como combustible.
Corpus desk
Index ES-bencina · bencina · Spanish
bencina · rank #62,856 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,856
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH belvedere
Nearest frequency peer: belvedere (-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 “bencina”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- battery
battery
37,149 corpus weight
- belvedere
belvedere
37,146 corpus weight
- bencina
bencina
37,145 corpus weight
- Bengasi
Bengasi
37,144 corpus weight
- bermellón
bermellón
37,143 corpus weight
- bian
bian
37,140 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “bencina” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bencina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bẽnˈsina] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,856 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “bencina” en español
Rare enough to double-check
bencina is uncommon Spanish at frequency #62,856 among 2,459 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [bẽnˈsina]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
bencina doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 bencina, spelled B-E-N-C-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1Mezcla de varios hidrocarburos, obtenida por destilación del alquitrán de la hulla, de los petróleos, etc., que se emplea especialmente como combustible.
- 2Nombre dado a la gasolina, combustible derivado del petróleo.
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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