o'clock
/əˈklɑk/
The verdict
“o'clock” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #90,167 among 1,467 “O” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,167
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En punto.
Corpus desk
Index ES-o-clock · o'clock · Spanish
o'clock · rank #90,167 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,167
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH objective
Nearest frequency peer: objective (+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 “o'clock”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- novembre
novembre
9,839 corpus weight
- nuovo
nuovo
9,837 corpus weight
- o'clock
o'clock
9,834 corpus weight
- objective
objective
9,833 corpus weight
- obrajes
obrajes
9,832 corpus weight
- obsecuente
obsecuente
9,831 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “o'clock” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | o'clock |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /əˈklɑk/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,167 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “o'clock” en español
Rare enough to double-check
o'clock is uncommon Spanish at frequency #90,167 among 1,467 “O” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed /əˈklɑk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "En punto.".
Zero misspellings are on record for o'clock in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 o'clock, spelled O-'-C-L-O-C-K.
Definition
- 1En punto.
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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