marfileño
[maɾfiˈleɲo]
The verdict
“marfileño” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #77,444 among 3,868 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,444
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hecho de marfil.
Corpus desk
Index ES-marfileno · marfileño · Spanish
marfileño · rank #77,444 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,444
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH marchito
Nearest frequency peer: marchito (-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 “marfileño”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- mandón
mandón
22,563 corpus weight
- manojos
manojos
22,562 corpus weight
- Manzo
Manzo
22,561 corpus weight
- marchito
marchito
22,558 corpus weight
- marfileño
marfileño
22,557 corpus weight
- masacran
masacran
22,553 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “marfileño” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marfileño |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [maɾfiˈleɲo] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,444 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “marfileño” en español
Rare enough to double-check
marfileño is uncommon Spanish at frequency #77,444 among 3,868 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [maɾfiˈleɲo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for marfileño, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is marfileño, spelled M-A-R-F-I-L-E-Ñ-O.
Definition
- 1Hecho de marfil.
- 2Que recuerda a este material en algún aspecto, especialmente en el color.
- 3Originario, relativo a, o propio de Costa de Marfil.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how marfileño appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
El juego de novia era de raso blanco, pero con el tiempo iba tomando un tono marfileño.
un marfileño que huyó del conflicto en su país y ahora vive en una barriada de Rabat, pregunta: “Este papel no me protege de las expulsiones, ni me permite ir al hospital, ni mandar a mis hijos al colegio.
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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