broke
/bɹəʊk/
The verdict
“broke” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #80,759 among 2,459 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,759
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arruinado, tieso (coloquial), en bancarrota, sin dinero.
Corpus desk
Index ES-broke · broke · Spanish
broke · rank #80,759 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,759
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH broder
Nearest frequency peer: broder (-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 “broke”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- brin
brin
19,244 corpus weight
- broder
broder
19,243 corpus weight
- broke
broke
19,242 corpus weight
- buceador
buceador
19,241 corpus weight
- bulldozer
bulldozer
19,239 corpus weight
- cachitos
cachitos
19,237 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “broke” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | broke |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /bɹəʊk/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,759 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “broke” en español
Rare enough to double-check
broke is uncommon Spanish at frequency #80,759 among 2,459 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /bɹəʊk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Arruinado, tieso (coloquial), en bancarrota, sin dinero.".
broke doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is broke, spelled B-R-O-K-E.
Definition
- 1Arruinado, tieso (coloquial), en bancarrota, sin dinero.
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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