pasacalles
[pasaˈkaʝes]
The verdict
“pasacalles” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #50,458 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,458
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de pasacalle.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pasacalles · pasacalles · Spanish
pasacalles · rank #50,458 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,458
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pasabas
Nearest frequency peer: pasabas (-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 “pasacalles”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- parafina
parafina
49,547 corpus weight
- parish
parish
49,545 corpus weight
- pasabas
pasabas
49,544 corpus weight
- pasacalles
pasacalles
49,543 corpus weight
- pasador
pasador
49,542 corpus weight
- pasamanos
pasamanos
49,541 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “pasacalles” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pasacalles |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pasaˈkaʝes] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #50,458 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “pasacalles” en español
Rare enough to double-check
pasacalles is uncommon Spanish at frequency #50,458 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [pasaˈkaʝes]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de pasacalle.".
pasacalles doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 pasacalles, spelled P-A-S-A-C-A-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Variante de pasacalle.
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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