idle
/ˈaɪ.dəl/
The verdict
“idle” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #81,058 among 3,428 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,058
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,428
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Desocupado.
Corpus desk
Index ES-idle · idle · Spanish
idle · rank #81,058 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,058
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,428
- PHOTO-FINISH ili
Nearest frequency peer: ili (+2 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 “idle”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- hundiera
hundiera
18,949 corpus weight
- idle
idle
18,943 corpus weight
- ili
ili
18,941 corpus weight
- illusion
illusion
18,939 corpus weight
- ilustrativas
ilustrativas
18,938 corpus weight
- imitaron
imitaron
18,936 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “idle” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | idle |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈaɪ.dəl/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #81,058 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “idle” en español
Rare enough to double-check
idle is uncommon Spanish at frequency #81,058 among 3,428 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈaɪ.dəl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Desocupado.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for idle, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is idle, spelled I-D-L-E.
Definition
- 1Desocupado.
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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