lingote
[lĩŋˈgot̪e]
The verdict
“lingote” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #72,936 among 2,069 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,936
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Trozo o barra de metal en bruto, principalmente hierro o metales preciosos como plata, oro o platino.
Corpus desk
Index ES-lingote · lingote · Spanish
lingote · rank #72,936 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,936
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH litigante
Nearest frequency peer: litigante (+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 “lingote”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- levantaremos
levantaremos
27,068 corpus weight
- liberaría
liberaría
27,067 corpus weight
- lingote
lingote
27,065 corpus weight
- litigante
litigante
27,064 corpus weight
- llamad
llamad
27,063 corpus weight
- llibre
llibre
27,062 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “lingote” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lingote |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [lĩŋˈgot̪e] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “lingote” en español
Rare enough to double-check
lingote is uncommon Spanish at frequency #72,936 among 2,069 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [lĩŋˈgot̪e]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for lingote in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is lingote, spelled L-I-N-G-O-T-E.
Definition
- 1Trozo o barra de metal en bruto, principalmente hierro o metales preciosos como plata, oro o platino.
- 2Cada una de las barras o paralelepípedos de hierro que sirven para balancear la estiba de los buques. Suelen tener un agujero en una de sus extremidades.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lingote appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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