defence
/dɪˈfɛns/
The verdict
“defence” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #58,409 among 4,885 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,409
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grafía alternativa de defense
Corpus desk
Index ES-defence · defence · Spanish
defence · rank #58,409 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,409
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH defendidas
Nearest frequency peer: defendidas (+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 “defence”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- debatirá
debatirá
41,595 corpus weight
- decanta
decanta
41,594 corpus weight
- defence
defence
41,592 corpus weight
- defendidas
defendidas
41,591 corpus weight
- defendiéndo…
defendiéndose
41,590 corpus weight
- deformar
deformar
41,589 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “defence” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | defence |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɪˈfɛns/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,409 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “defence” en español
Rare enough to double-check
defence is uncommon Spanish at frequency #58,409 among 4,885 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /dɪˈfɛns/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Grafía alternativa de defense".
No misspelling variants are generated for defence in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is defence, spelled D-E-F-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Grafía alternativa de defense
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).