iglú
[iˈɣ̞lu]
The verdict
“iglú” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #74,605 among 3,428 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,605
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,428
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vivienda típica de los inuit, en forma de domo de bloques de nieve, con un acceso subterráneo para la mejor conservación del calor.
Corpus desk
Index ES-iglu · iglú · Spanish
iglú · rank #74,605 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,605
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,428
- PHOTO-FINISH idiopática
Nearest frequency peer: idiopática (-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 “iglú”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- hundirá
hundirá
25,402 corpus weight
- idiopática
idiopática
25,397 corpus weight
- iglú
iglú
25,396 corpus weight
- igualaron
igualaron
25,394 corpus weight
- imaginativos
imaginativos
25,392 corpus weight
- ime
ime
25,391 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “iglú” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | iglú |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [iˈɣ̞lu] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #74,605 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “iglú” en español
Rare enough to double-check
iglú is uncommon Spanish at frequency #74,605 among 3,428 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [iˈɣ̞lu]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vivienda típica de los inuit, en forma de domo de bloques de nieve, con un acceso subterráneo para la mejor conservación del calor.".
No misspelling variants are generated for iglú in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 iglú, spelled I-G-L-Ú.
Definition
- 1Vivienda típica de los inuit, en forma de domo de bloques de nieve, con un acceso subterráneo para la mejor conservación del calor.
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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