empacho
[ẽmˈpat͡ʃo]
The verdict
“empacho” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #50,217 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,217
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de empachar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-empacho · empacho · Spanish
empacho · rank #50,217 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,217
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH emoticones
Nearest frequency peer: emoticones (-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 “empacho”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Eleonora
Eleonora
49,787 corpus weight
- elevaba
elevaba
49,786 corpus weight
- emoticones
emoticones
49,785 corpus weight
- empacho
empacho
49,784 corpus weight
- empeñada
empeñada
49,783 corpus weight
- emulación
emulación
49,782 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “empacho” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empacho |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽmˈpat͡ʃo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,217 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “empacho” en español
Rare enough to double-check
empacho is uncommon Spanish at frequency #50,217 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ẽmˈpat͡ʃo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de empachar.".
Zero misspellings are on record for empacho in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is empacho, spelled E-M-P-A-C-H-O.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de empachar.
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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