drift
/dɹɪft/
The verdict
“drift” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #62,262 among 4,885 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,262
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Movimiento a la deriva.
Corpus desk
Index ES-drift · drift · Spanish
drift · rank #62,262 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,262
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH druidas
Nearest frequency peer: druidas (+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 “drift”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- dividían
dividían
37,743 corpus weight
- domus
domus
37,742 corpus weight
- donadores
donadores
37,741 corpus weight
- drift
drift
37,739 corpus weight
- druidas
druidas
37,738 corpus weight
- ducal
ducal
37,737 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “drift” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drift |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɹɪft/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,262 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “drift” en español
Rare enough to double-check
drift is uncommon Spanish at frequency #62,262 among 4,885 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /dɹɪft/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
drift doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 drift, spelled D-R-I-F-T.
Definition
- 1Movimiento a la deriva.
- 2Movimiento debido a la fuerza de los vientos o las corrientes de agua.
- 3Corriente de agua que avanza de 16 a 20 km por día.
- 4Velocidad de las corrientes oceánicas, medida en nudos.
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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