offensive
/əˈfɛnsɪv/
The verdict
“offensive” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #99,882 among 1,467 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,882
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ultrajante, insultante.
Corpus desk
Index ES-offensive · offensive · Spanish
offensive · rank #99,882 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,882
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH ocultará
Nearest frequency peer: ocultará (-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 “offensive”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- occitano
occitano
125 corpus weight
- ocultará
ocultará
120 corpus weight
- offensive
offensive
119 corpus weight
- ofuscación
ofuscación
117 corpus weight
- ollo
ollo
116 corpus weight
- olvidad
olvidad
114 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “offensive” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | offensive |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /əˈfɛnsɪv/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #99,882 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “offensive” en español
Rare enough to double-check
offensive is uncommon Spanish at frequency #99,882 among 1,467 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /əˈfɛnsɪv/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for offensive, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 offensive, spelled O-F-F-E-N-S-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Ultrajante, insultante.
- 2Relativo a una ofensiva o ataque, en contraposición a la defensiva.
- 3Que tiene que ver con el juego dirigido a anotar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how offensive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The army's offensive capabilities.
An offensive weapon.
Antonyms
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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