empalma
[ẽmˈpalma]
The verdict
“empalma” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #96,261 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,261
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de empalmar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-empalma · empalma · Spanish
empalma · rank #96,261 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,261
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH empeñen
Nearest frequency peer: empeñen (+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 “empalma”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- emigren
emigren
3,742 corpus weight
- empalma
empalma
3,740 corpus weight
- empeñen
empeñen
3,739 corpus weight
- emérita
emérita
3,737 corpus weight
- enardecido
enardecido
3,736 corpus weight
- encefálico
encefálico
3,735 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “empalma” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empalma |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽmˈpalma] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,261 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “empalma” en español
Rare enough to double-check
empalma is uncommon Spanish at frequency #96,261 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ẽmˈpalma]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for empalma, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is empalma, spelled E-M-P-A-L-M-A.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de empalmar.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de empalmar.
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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