sail
/seɪl/
The verdict
“sail” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #98,932 among 4,169 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,932
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vela de un barco o bote.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sail · sail · Spanish
sail · rank #98,932 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,932
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sahariano
Nearest frequency peer: sahariano (-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 “sail”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- rondalla
rondalla
1,075 corpus weight
- sahariano
sahariano
1,070 corpus weight
- sail
sail
1,069 corpus weight
- salad
salad
1,068 corpus weight
- salteados
salteados
1,066 corpus weight
- salvamentos
salvamentos
1,065 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “sail” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sail |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /seɪl/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #98,932 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “sail” en español
Rare enough to double-check
sail is uncommon Spanish at frequency #98,932 among 4,169 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /seɪl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vela de un barco o bote.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sail, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 sail, spelled S-A-I-L.
Definition
- 1Vela de un barco o bote.
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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