earthquake
/ˈɜːθkweɪk/
The verdict
“earthquake” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #89,809 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,809
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Terremoto.
Corpus desk
Index ES-earthquake · earthquake · Spanish
earthquake · rank #89,809 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,809
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH ebanista
Nearest frequency peer: ebanista (+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 “earthquake”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- donamos
donamos
10,203 corpus weight
- dudaré
dudaré
10,198 corpus weight
- earthquake
earthquake
10,192 corpus weight
- ebanista
ebanista
10,191 corpus weight
- Echave
Echave
10,189 corpus weight
- eclécticos
eclécticos
10,188 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “earthquake” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | earthquake |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɜːθkweɪk/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #89,809 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “earthquake” en español
Rare enough to double-check
earthquake is uncommon Spanish at frequency #89,809 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɜːθkweɪk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Terremoto.".
No misspelling variants are generated for earthquake in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 earthquake, spelled E-A-R-T-H-Q-U-A-K-E.
Definition
- 1Terremoto.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how earthquake appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven
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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