heck
/hɛk/
The verdict
“heck” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #79,214 among 1,569 “H” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,214
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,569
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caramba.
Corpus desk
Index ES-heck · heck · Spanish
heck · rank #79,214 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,214
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,569
- PHOTO-FINISH hechizada
Nearest frequency peer: hechizada (-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 “heck”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- happens
happens
20,793 corpus weight
- hartar
hartar
20,792 corpus weight
- hechizada
hechizada
20,788 corpus weight
- heck
heck
20,787 corpus weight
- hendido
hendido
20,786 corpus weight
- hiela
hiela
20,783 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “heck” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | heck |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /hɛk/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #79,214 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “heck” en español
Rare enough to double-check
heck is uncommon Spanish at frequency #79,214 among 1,569 “H” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed /hɛk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Caramba.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for heck in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is heck, spelled H-E-C-K.
Definition
- 1Caramba.
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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