jalapeños
[xalaˈpeɲos]
The verdict
“jalapeños” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #88,997 among 645 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,997
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 645
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del plural de jalapeño.
Corpus desk
Index ES-jalapenos · jalapeños · Spanish
jalapeños · rank #88,997 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,997
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 645
- PHOTO-FINISH jambas
Nearest frequency peer: jambas (+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 “jalapeños”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- introduces
introduces
11,013 corpus weight
- introduciría
introduciría
11,012 corpus weight
- introducién…
introduciéndose
11,011 corpus weight
- irvin
irvin
11,010 corpus weight
- jalapeños
jalapeños
11,004 corpus weight
- jambas
jambas
11,003 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “jalapeños” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jalapeños |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [xalaˈpeɲos] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #88,997 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “jalapeños” en español
Rare enough to double-check
jalapeños is uncommon Spanish at frequency #88,997 among 645 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [xalaˈpeɲos]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forma del plural de jalapeño.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for jalapeños, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 jalapeños, spelled J-A-L-A-P-E-Ñ-O-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de jalapeño.
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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