dumb
/dʌm/
The verdict
“dumb” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #75,378 among 4,885 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,378
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tonto, estúpido
Corpus desk
Index ES-dumb · dumb · Spanish
dumb · rank #75,378 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,378
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH duelan
Nearest frequency peer: duelan (-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 “dumb”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- dread
dread
24,627 corpus weight
- drenado
drenado
24,626 corpus weight
- drunk
drunk
24,625 corpus weight
- duelan
duelan
24,624 corpus weight
- dumb
dumb
24,623 corpus weight
- dungeons
dungeons
24,622 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “dumb” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dumb |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /dʌm/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #75,378 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “dumb” en español
Rare enough to double-check
dumb is uncommon Spanish at frequency #75,378 among 4,885 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /dʌm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for dumb in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is dumb, spelled D-U-M-B.
Definition
- 1Tonto, estúpido
- 2Mudo.
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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