impasse
[ĩmˈpase]
The verdict
“impasse” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #57,118 among 3,428 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,118
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,428
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Callejón sin salida, punto muerto, detención de un asunto por un tiempo relativamente corto.
Corpus desk
Index ES-impasse · impasse · Spanish
impasse · rank #57,118 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,118
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,428
- PHOTO-FINISH imaginad
Nearest frequency peer: imaginad (-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 “impasse”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- imaginad
imaginad
42,884 corpus weight
- impasse
impasse
42,883 corpus weight
- implícitas
implícitas
42,882 corpus weight
- incansables
incansables
42,881 corpus weight
- incendian
incendian
42,880 corpus weight
- inciertas
inciertas
42,879 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “impasse” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impasse |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ĩmˈpase] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,118 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “impasse” en español
Rare enough to double-check
impasse is uncommon Spanish at frequency #57,118 among 3,428 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ĩmˈpase]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for impasse, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is impasse, spelled I-M-P-A-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Callejón sin salida, punto muerto, detención de un asunto por un tiempo relativamente corto.
- 2Estancamiento, suspensión indefinida de la marcha de una negociación o cualquier asunto similar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how impasse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Y después de un breve impasse Entré a ver un show con free pass De un master que tocaba jazz A pesar de tener un baipás
Antonyms
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).