hecatombe
[ekaˈt̪õmbe]
The verdict
“hecatombe” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #57,101 among 1,569 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,101
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,569
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Catástrofe o desastre con numerosas víctimas y grandes pérdidas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-hecatombe · hecatombe · Spanish
hecatombe · rank #57,101 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,101
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,569
- PHOTO-FINISH hebreas
Nearest frequency peer: hebreas (-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 “hecatombe”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- habilidoso
habilidoso
42,906 corpus weight
- hebreas
hebreas
42,901 corpus weight
- hecatombe
hecatombe
42,900 corpus weight
- helipuerto
helipuerto
42,899 corpus weight
- hilado
hilado
42,897 corpus weight
- holgado
holgado
42,894 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “hecatombe” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hecatombe |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ekaˈt̪õmbe] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “hecatombe” en español
Rare enough to double-check
hecatombe is uncommon Spanish at frequency #57,101 among 1,569 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ekaˈt̪õmbe]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
hecatombe has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists 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 hecatombe, spelled H-E-C-A-T-O-M-B-E.
Definition
- 1Catástrofe o desastre con numerosas víctimas y grandes pérdidas.
- 2Gran mortandad; matanza.
- 3Sacrificio religioso de 100 bueyes u otras víctimas, que hacían los antiguos paganos a sus dioses, especialmente los paganos de la antigua Grecia.
- 4Cualquier sacrificio solemne en que es abundante el número de víctimas, aunque no lleguen a 100 o excedan 100.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hecatombe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
El terremoto fue una hecatombe.
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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