exégesis
[ekˈsexesis]
The verdict
“exégesis” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #60,808 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,808
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Explicación, interpretación.
Corpus desk
Index ES-exegesis · exégesis · Spanish
exégesis · rank #60,808 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,808
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH extrapolar
Nearest frequency peer: extrapolar (-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 “exégesis”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- exhaustivos
exhaustivos
39,196 corpus weight
- extenderán
extenderán
39,195 corpus weight
- extrapolar
extrapolar
39,194 corpus weight
- exégesis
exégesis
39,193 corpus weight
- facilitamos
facilitamos
39,192 corpus weight
- Felipa
Felipa
39,191 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “exégesis” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exégesis |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ekˈsexesis] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,808 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “exégesis” en español
Rare enough to double-check
exégesis is uncommon Spanish at frequency #60,808 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ekˈsexesis]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for exégesis in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is exégesis, spelled E-X-É-G-E-S-I-S.
Definition
- 1Explicación, interpretación.
- 2Interpretación o explicación de un texto, la cual puede ser filológica, histórica o doctrinal. Frecuentemente se emplea para la interpretación doctrinal de un texto antiguo en análisis comparativo histórico-filológico, que sirve así mismo para la datación de aquella obras cuya fecha de composición se desconoce. Este término se aplica especialmente refiriéndose a la interpretación de las Sagradas escrituras.
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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