IMS
[ˈĩms]
The verdict
“IMS” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #70,342 among 3,428 “I” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,342
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,428
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En seguridad social, acrónimo de invalidez o incapacidad permanente, muerte y supervivencia http://www.seg-social.es/prdi00/groups/public/documents/binario/113903.pdf.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ims · IMS · Spanish
IMS · rank #70,342 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,342
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,428
- PHOTO-FINISH impregnados
Nearest frequency peer: impregnados (-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 “IMS”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- impostura
impostura
29,661 corpus weight
- impregnados
impregnados
29,660 corpus weight
- IMS
IMS
29,659 corpus weight
- inadaptado
inadaptado
29,658 corpus weight
- inanimados
inanimados
29,657 corpus weight
- incendiadas
incendiadas
29,656 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “IMS” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | IMS |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [ˈĩms] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #70,342 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “IMS” en español
Rare enough to double-check
IMS is uncommon Spanish at frequency #70,342 among 3,428 “I” headwords, classed as anabbreviation, transcribed [ˈĩms]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "En seguridad social, acrónimo de invalidez o incapacidad permanente, muerte y supervivencia http://www.seg-social.es/prdi00/groups/public/documents/binario/113903.pdf.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for IMS, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is IMS, spelled I-M-S.
Definition
- 1En seguridad social, acrónimo de invalidez o incapacidad permanente, muerte y supervivencia http://www.seg-social.es/prdi00/groups/public/documents/binario/113903.pdf.
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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