nerve
[ˈnɛʁf]
The verdict
“nerve” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #92,217 among 1,151 “N” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,217
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,151
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (ich) del presente de indicativo de nerven.
Corpus desk
Index ES-nerve · nerve · Spanish
nerve · rank #92,217 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,217
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,151
- PHOTO-FINISH needle
Nearest frequency peer: needle (-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 “nerve”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- natas
natas
7,786 corpus weight
- needle
needle
7,785 corpus weight
- nerve
nerve
7,784 corpus weight
- neuralgia
neuralgia
7,783 corpus weight
- neutralizad…
neutralizados
7,782 corpus weight
- Nicosia
Nicosia
7,781 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “nerve” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nerve |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈnɛʁf] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #92,217 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “nerve” en español
Rare enough to double-check
nerve is uncommon Spanish at frequency #92,217 among 1,151 “N” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈnɛʁf]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
nerve doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for 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 nerve, spelled N-E-R-V-E.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (ich) del presente de indicativo de nerven.
- 2Primera persona del singular (ich) del presente de subjuntivo de nerven.
- 3Segunda persona del singular (du) del imperativo afirmativo de nerven.
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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