raquis
[ˈrakis]
The verdict
“raquis” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #71,365 among 4,151 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,365
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Eje de la inflorescencia en espiga del trigo y otros cereales.
Corpus desk
Index ES-raquis · raquis · Spanish
raquis · rank #71,365 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,365
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH rapsodia
Nearest frequency peer: rapsodia (-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 “raquis”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Quibdó
Quibdó
28,641 corpus weight
- quichua
quichua
28,640 corpus weight
- rapsodia
rapsodia
28,637 corpus weight
- raquis
raquis
28,636 corpus weight
- rasgada
rasgada
28,635 corpus weight
- recalentado
recalentado
28,630 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “raquis” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raquis |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈrakis] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,365 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “raquis” en español
Rare enough to double-check
raquis is uncommon Spanish at frequency #71,365 among 4,151 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈrakis]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for raquis, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is raquis, spelled R-A-Q-U-I-S.
Definition
- 1Eje de la inflorescencia en espiga del trigo y otros cereales.
- 2Tallo o pecíolo principal al que los folíolos de una hoja compuesta se fijan, sobre todo en las palmas y helechos
- 3Eje de la pluma de las aves
- 4Conjunto de las vértebras articuladas que alojan la médula espinal en los vertebrados
Synonyms
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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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