embuste
[ẽmˈbust̪e]
The verdict
“embuste” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #64,587 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,587
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mentira disfrazada con argucias, generalmente conformando un relato artificioso.
Corpus desk
Index ES-embuste · embuste · Spanish
embuste · rank #64,587 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,587
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH emboscado
Nearest frequency peer: emboscado (-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 “embuste”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- embarques
embarques
35,417 corpus weight
- emboscado
emboscado
35,415 corpus weight
- embuste
embuste
35,414 corpus weight
- encadena
encadena
35,413 corpus weight
- encadenadas
encadenadas
35,412 corpus weight
- enciendan
enciendan
35,411 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “embuste” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embuste |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ẽmˈbust̪e] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,587 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “embuste” en español
Rare enough to double-check
embuste is uncommon Spanish at frequency #64,587 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ẽmˈbust̪e]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for embuste, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 embuste, spelled E-M-B-U-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Mentira disfrazada con argucias, generalmente conformando un relato artificioso.
- 2Mentira en general.
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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