patients
/ˈpeɪʃənts/
The verdict
“patients” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #92,264 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,264
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del plural de patient.
Corpus desk
Index ES-patients · patients · Spanish
patients · rank #92,264 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,264
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH patalear
Nearest frequency peer: patalear (-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 “patients”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- partid
partid
7,742 corpus weight
- partidocrac…
partidocracia
7,741 corpus weight
- pasible
pasible
7,740 corpus weight
- patalear
patalear
7,738 corpus weight
- patients
patients
7,737 corpus weight
- Pecos
Pecos
7,732 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “patients” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patients |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpeɪʃənts/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,264 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “patients” en español
Rare enough to double-check
patients is uncommon Spanish at frequency #92,264 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈpeɪʃənts/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forma del plural de patient.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for patients, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is patients, spelled P-A-T-I-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de patient.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).