Elis
[ˈelis]
The verdict
“Elis” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #63,024 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,024
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apellido.
Corpus desk
Index ES-elis · Elis · Spanish
Elis · rank #63,024 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,024
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH emitiera
Nearest frequency peer: emitiera (+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 “Elis”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- dúplex
dúplex
36,981 corpus weight
- ebanistería
ebanistería
36,980 corpus weight
- Echarri
Echarri
36,979 corpus weight
- Elis
Elis
36,977 corpus weight
- emitiera
emitiera
36,976 corpus weight
- enaltecimie…
enaltecimiento
36,974 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “Elis” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Elis |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈelis] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #63,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “Elis” en español
Rare enough to double-check
Elis is uncommon Spanish at frequency #63,024 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈelis]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Apellido.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Elis in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is Elis, spelled E-L-I-S.
Definition
- 1Apellido.
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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