enroque
[ẽnˈroke]
The verdict
“enroque” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #84,830 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #84,830
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Movimiento en el juego de ajedrez en el que el rey y una de sus torre se mueven simultaneamente. El rey se mueve hacia la torre dos casillas y la torre hacia el rey hasta quedar en la casilla inmed...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enroque |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ẽnˈroke] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,830 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “enroque” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for enroque is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ẽnˈroke]. Corpus data places it at rank #84,830 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for enroque, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 enroque, spelled E-N-R-O-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Movimiento en el juego de ajedrez en el que el rey y una de sus torre se mueven simultaneamente. El rey se mueve hacia la torre dos casillas y la torre hacia el rey hasta quedar en la casilla inmediatamente posterior al rey.
- 2Por extensión intercambio de posiciones con un propósito estratégico.
This word in other languages
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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Using “enroque”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is E-N-R-O-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ẽnˈroke] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.