quark
[ˈkwaɾk]
The verdict
“quark” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #61,089 among 364 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,089
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 364
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grafía anticuada de cuark (ambas etimologías).
Corpus desk
Index ES-quark · quark · Spanish
quark · rank #61,089 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,089
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 364
- PHOTO-FINISH pórticos
Nearest frequency peer: pórticos (-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 “quark”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- puteo
puteo
38,916 corpus weight
- Pánuco
Pánuco
38,914 corpus weight
- pórticos
pórticos
38,913 corpus weight
- quark
quark
38,912 corpus weight
- quebranto
quebranto
38,911 corpus weight
- quedabas
quedabas
38,910 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “quark” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quark |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkwaɾk] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #61,089 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “quark” en español
Rare enough to double-check
quark is uncommon Spanish at frequency #61,089 among 364 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkwaɾk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Grafía anticuada de cuark (ambas etimologías).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for quark, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is quark, spelled Q-U-A-R-K.
Definition
- 1Grafía anticuada de cuark (ambas etimologías).
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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