excellence
/ɛk.se.lɑ̃s/
The verdict
“excellence” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #74,517 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,517
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Excelencia.
Corpus desk
Index ES-excellence · excellence · Spanish
excellence · rank #74,517 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,517
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH excitaba
Nearest frequency peer: excitaba (+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 “excellence”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- etiquetadas
etiquetadas
25,488 corpus weight
- excellence
excellence
25,484 corpus weight
- excitaba
excitaba
25,483 corpus weight
- exiges
exiges
25,482 corpus weight
- expire
expire
25,481 corpus weight
- exploratoria
exploratoria
25,480 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “excellence” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | excellence |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɛk.se.lɑ̃s/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #74,517 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “excellence” en español
Rare enough to double-check
excellence is uncommon Spanish at frequency #74,517 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɛk.se.lɑ̃s/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Excelencia.".
excellence has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is excellence, spelled E-X-C-E-L-L-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Excelencia.
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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