roof
/ɹuːf/
The verdict
“roof” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #69,777 among 4,151 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,777
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Techo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-roof · roof · Spanish
roof · rank #69,777 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,777
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH rodete
Nearest frequency peer: rodete (-2 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 “roof”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- rodamientos
rodamientos
30,227 corpus weight
- rodete
rodete
30,226 corpus weight
- roof
roof
30,224 corpus weight
- rotundidad
rotundidad
30,222 corpus weight
- rub
rub
30,221 corpus weight
- sacerdotales
sacerdotales
30,219 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “roof” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roof |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹuːf/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #69,777 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “roof” en español
Rare enough to double-check
roof is uncommon Spanish at frequency #69,777 among 4,151 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɹuːf/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Techo.".
roof has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is roof, spelled R-O-O-F.
Definition
- 1Techo.
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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