blackbird
/ˈblæk.bəɽd/
The verdict
“blackbird” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #99,273 among 24,339 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,273
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 24,339
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Turdus merula) Tordo, mirlo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blackbird |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈblæk.bəɽd/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #99,273 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “blackbird” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
blackbird is uncommon Spanish at frequency #99,273 among 24,339 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈblæk.bəɽd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for blackbird in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is blackbird, spelled B-L-A-C-K-B-I-R-D.
Definition
- 1(Turdus merula) Tordo, mirlo.
- 2Cualquiera de varias especies de la familia Icteridae, conocidas en castellano como zanates o tordos.
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 “blackbird”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-L-A-C-K-B-I-R-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈblæk.bəɽd/ (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.