ópalo
[ˈopalo]
The verdict
“ópalo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #86,390 among 28 “Ó” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,390
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 28
- “Ó” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mineraloide de estructura amorfa, compuesto mayormente de sílice organizada en diminutas lepisferas empaquetadas en un enrejado tridimensional, que lo dotan de una característica capacidad de difra...
Corpus desk
Index ES-opalo · ópalo · Spanish
ópalo · rank #86,390 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,390
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 28
- PHOTO-FINISH égida
Nearest frequency peer: égida (-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 “ópalo”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- zine
zine
13,617 corpus weight
- zorzal
zorzal
13,616 corpus weight
- Zubizarreta
Zubizarreta
13,615 corpus weight
- égida
égida
13,613 corpus weight
- ópalo
ópalo
13,611 corpus weight
- abarrotados
abarrotados
13,605 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “ópalo” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ópalo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈopalo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,390 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “ópalo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
ópalo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #86,390 among 28 “Ó” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈopalo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mineraloide de estructura amorfa, compuesto mayormente de sílice organizada en diminutas lepisferas empaquetadas en un enrejado tridimensional, que lo dotan de una característica capacidad de difra...".
No misspelling variants are generated for ópalo in our 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, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is ópalo, spelled Ó-P-A-L-O.
Definition
- 1Mineraloide de estructura amorfa, compuesto mayormente de sílice organizada en diminutas lepisferas empaquetadas en un enrejado tridimensional, que lo dotan de una característica capacidad de difracción. Es apreciado en joyería
This word in other languages
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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