flick
[ˈflɪk]
The verdict
“flick” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #67,758 among 2,333 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,758
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Movimiento brusco, rápido y ligero; capirotazo, coletazo, latigazo, sacudida.
Corpus desk
Index ES-flick · flick · Spanish
flick · rank #67,758 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,758
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH florezca
Nearest frequency peer: florezca (+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 “flick”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- fili
fili
32,247 corpus weight
- filigrana
filigrana
32,246 corpus weight
- fleet
fleet
32,245 corpus weight
- flick
flick
32,243 corpus weight
- florezca
florezca
32,242 corpus weight
- fogueo
fogueo
32,240 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “flick” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flick |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈflɪk] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,758 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “flick” en español
Rare enough to double-check
flick is uncommon Spanish at frequency #67,758 among 2,333 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈflɪk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for flick, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 flick, spelled F-L-I-C-K.
Definition
- 1Movimiento brusco, rápido y ligero; capirotazo, coletazo, latigazo, sacudida.
- 2Chasquido.
- 3Película, filme.
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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