gypsy
[ˈdʒɪp.sɪ]
The verdict
“gypsy” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #64,672 among 1,728 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,672
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grafía alternativa de gipsy.
Corpus desk
Index ES-gypsy · gypsy · Spanish
gypsy · rank #64,672 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,672
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH guilty
Nearest frequency peer: guilty (-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 “gypsy”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Grenoble
Grenoble
35,333 corpus weight
- grupa
grupa
35,332 corpus weight
- guilty
guilty
35,330 corpus weight
- gypsy
gypsy
35,329 corpus weight
- hablarían
hablarían
35,328 corpus weight
- hague
hague
35,325 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “gypsy” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gypsy |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈdʒɪp.sɪ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,672 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “gypsy” en español
Rare enough to double-check
gypsy is uncommon Spanish at frequency #64,672 among 1,728 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈdʒɪp.sɪ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Grafía alternativa de gipsy.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gypsy, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists 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 gypsy, spelled G-Y-P-S-Y.
Definition
- 1Grafía alternativa de gipsy.
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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