clerical
[kleɾiˈkal]
The verdict
“clerical” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #50,780 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,780
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Perteneciente al clérigo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-clerical · clerical · Spanish
clerical · rank #50,780 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,780
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH claustros
Nearest frequency peer: claustros (-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 “clerical”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- claustros
claustros
49,222 corpus weight
- clerical
clerical
49,221 corpus weight
- climatológi…
climatológicas
49,220 corpus weight
- codificados
codificados
49,219 corpus weight
- collective
collective
49,218 corpus weight
- colmó
colmó
49,216 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “clerical” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clerical |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [kleɾiˈkal] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “clerical” en español
Rare enough to double-check
clerical is uncommon Spanish at frequency #50,780 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [kleɾiˈkal]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Perteneciente al clérigo.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for clerical, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is clerical, spelled C-L-E-R-I-C-A-L.
Definition
- 1Perteneciente al clérigo.
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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