dust
/dʌst/
The verdict
“dust” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #54,182 among 4,885 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,182
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Polvo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-dust · dust · Spanish
dust · rank #54,182 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,182
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH dying
Nearest frequency peer: dying (+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 “dust”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- dumping
dumping
45,821 corpus weight
- dust
dust
45,819 corpus weight
- dying
dying
45,818 corpus weight
- dárselas
dárselas
45,817 corpus weight
- echos
echos
45,816 corpus weight
- editaron
editaron
45,815 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “dust” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dust |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dʌst/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #54,182 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “dust” en español
Rare enough to double-check
dust is uncommon Spanish at frequency #54,182 among 4,885 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /dʌst/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Polvo.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for dust in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 dust, spelled D-U-S-T.
Definition
- 1Polvo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dust appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, Measured heaven with a span and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure? Weighed the mountains in scales And the hills in a balance?
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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