pale
[peɪɫ]
The verdict
“pale” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #60,229 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,229
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pálido.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pale · pale · Spanish
pale · rank #60,229 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,229
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH paisana
Nearest frequency peer: paisana (-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 “pale”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- otorgarán
otorgarán
39,777 corpus weight
- owl
owl
39,775 corpus weight
- paisana
paisana
39,773 corpus weight
- pale
pale
39,772 corpus weight
- palmeros
palmeros
39,769 corpus weight
- panic
panic
39,768 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “pale” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pale |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [peɪɫ] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #60,229 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “pale” en español
Rare enough to double-check
pale is uncommon Spanish at frequency #60,229 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [peɪɫ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pálido.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pale in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is pale, spelled P-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Pálido.
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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