ilegible
[ileˈxiβ̞le]
The verdict
“ilegible” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #60,085 among 3,428 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,085
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,428
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Incomprensible o indescifrable, que no se puede leer.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ilegible · ilegible · Spanish
ilegible · rank #60,085 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,085
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,428
- PHOTO-FINISH idealizado
Nearest frequency peer: idealizado (-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 “ilegible”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Hurlingham
Hurlingham
39,920 corpus weight
- húsares
húsares
39,918 corpus weight
- idealizado
idealizado
39,917 corpus weight
- ilegible
ilegible
39,916 corpus weight
- imaginaban
imaginaban
39,914 corpus weight
- impartía
impartía
39,913 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “ilegible” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ilegible |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ileˈxiβ̞le] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,085 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “ilegible” en español
Rare enough to double-check
ilegible is uncommon Spanish at frequency #60,085 among 3,428 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ileˈxiβ̞le]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ilegible, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 ilegible, spelled I-L-E-G-I-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Incomprensible o indescifrable, que no se puede leer.
- 2Que por su forma o contenido se hace pesada o difícil su lectura.
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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