nag
/næg/
The verdict
“nag” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #76,581 among 1,151 “N” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,581
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,151
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Regañar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-nag · nag · Spanish
nag · rank #76,581 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,581
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,151
- PHOTO-FINISH nacería
Nearest frequency peer: nacería (-2 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 “nag”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Muscat
Muscat
23,424 corpus weight
- nacería
nacería
23,422 corpus weight
- nag
nag
23,420 corpus weight
- Nataly
Nataly
23,418 corpus weight
- natillas
natillas
23,417 corpus weight
- nebuloso
nebuloso
23,416 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “nag” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nag |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /næg/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #76,581 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “nag” en español
Rare enough to double-check
nag is uncommon Spanish at frequency #76,581 among 1,151 “N” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /næg/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for nag, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is nag, spelled N-A-G.
Definition
- 1Regañar.
- 2Molestar persistentemente, dar lata, generalmente por nimiedades.
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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