onze
[ɔ̃z]
The verdict
“onze” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #84,189 among 1,467 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,189
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Once
Corpus desk
Index ES-onze · onze · Spanish
onze · rank #84,189 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,189
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH omitida
Nearest frequency peer: omitida (-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 “onze”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- omen
omen
15,814 corpus weight
- omitida
omitida
15,813 corpus weight
- onze
onze
15,812 corpus weight
- opúsculo
opúsculo
15,811 corpus weight
- ovaladas
ovaladas
15,809 corpus weight
- ovo
ovo
15,808 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “onze” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | onze |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɔ̃z] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #84,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “onze” en español
Rare enough to double-check
onze is uncommon Spanish at frequency #84,189 among 1,467 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɔ̃z]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Once".
onze has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 onze, spelled O-N-Z-E.
Definition
- 1Once
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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