Isfahán
[isfaˈãn]
The verdict
“Isfahán” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #90,031 among 22,782 “I” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,031
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 22,782
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Importante ciudad de Irán. Son notables la bella Mezquita Masjid-i-Shah y la moderna planta de conversión de uranio.
Corpus desk
Index ES-isfahan · Isfahán · Spanish
Isfahán · rank #90,031 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,031
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 22,782
- PHOTO-FINISH islamización
Nearest frequency peer: islamización (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Isfahán”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- inunden
inunden
9,979 corpus weight
- invoque
invoque
9,975 corpus weight
- Isfahán
Isfahán
9,970 corpus weight
- islamización
islamización
9,969 corpus weight
- jesé
jesé
9,963 corpus weight
- juguetitos
juguetitos
9,961 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Isfahán” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Isfahán |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [isfaˈãn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,031 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Isfahán” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Isfahán is uncommon Spanish at frequency #90,031 among 22,782 “I” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [isfaˈãn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Importante ciudad de Irán. Son notables la bella Mezquita Masjid-i-Shah y la moderna planta de conversión de uranio.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Isfahán, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Isfahán, spelled I-S-F-A-H-Á-N.
Definition
- 1Importante ciudad de Irán. Son notables la bella Mezquita Masjid-i-Shah y la moderna planta de conversión de uranio.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.