patient
/pa.sjɑ̃/
The verdict
“patient” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #81,299 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,299
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Paciente.
Corpus desk
Index ES-patient · patient · Spanish
patient · rank #81,299 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,299
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pear
Nearest frequency peer: pear (+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 “patient”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- partiremos
partiremos
18,707 corpus weight
- parándose
parándose
18,706 corpus weight
- patient
patient
18,702 corpus weight
- pear
pear
18,701 corpus weight
- pedroche
pedroche
18,699 corpus weight
- peinando
peinando
18,698 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “patient” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patient |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /pa.sjɑ̃/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “patient” en español
Rare enough to double-check
patient is uncommon Spanish at frequency #81,299 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /pa.sjɑ̃/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Paciente.".
patient has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is patient, spelled P-A-T-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Paciente.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).