flop
[ˈflop]
The verdict
“flop” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #66,952 among 18,759 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,952
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 18,759
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - En el póquer, conjunto de las primeras tres cartas boca arriba que se colocan sobre la mesa, en las variantes de póquer donde se emplean cartas comunitarias.
Corpus desk
Index ES-flop · flop · Spanish
flop · rank #66,952 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,952
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 18,759
- PHOTO-FINISH fingimos
Nearest frequency peer: fingimos (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “flop”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- filipenses
filipenses
33,052 corpus weight
- financiará
financiará
33,051 corpus weight
- fingimos
fingimos
33,050 corpus weight
- flop
flop
33,049 corpus weight
- fogosa
fogosa
33,048 corpus weight
- foi
foi
33,047 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “flop” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flop |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈflop] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #66,952 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “flop” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
flop is uncommon Spanish at frequency #66,952 among 18,759 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈflop]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "En el póquer, conjunto de las primeras tres cartas boca arriba que se colocan sobre la mesa, en las variantes de póquer donde se emplean cartas comunitarias.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for flop, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 flop, spelled F-L-O-P.
Definition
- 1En el póquer, conjunto de las primeras tres cartas boca arriba que se colocan sobre la mesa, en las variantes de póquer donde se emplean cartas comunitarias.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.