espante
[esˈpãn̪t̪e]
The verdict
“espante” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #73,626 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,626
- 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 subjuntivo de espantar o de espantarse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-espante · espante · Spanish
espante · rank #73,626 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,626
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH espaciosas
Nearest frequency peer: espaciosas (-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 “espante”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- escoto
escoto
26,380 corpus weight
- escrupuloso
escrupuloso
26,379 corpus weight
- espaciosas
espaciosas
26,376 corpus weight
- espante
espante
26,375 corpus weight
- espartana
espartana
26,374 corpus weight
- Estallo
Estallo
26,371 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “espante” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | espante |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [esˈpãn̪t̪e] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,626 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “espante” en español
Rare enough to double-check
espante is uncommon Spanish at frequency #73,626 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [esˈpãn̪t̪e]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for espante, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is espante, spelled E-S-P-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de subjuntivo de espantar o de espantarse.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de espantar o de espantarse.
- 3Segunda persona del singular (usted) del imperativo de espantar o del imperativo negativo de espantarse.
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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