salpicar
[salpiˈkaɾ]
The verdict
“salpicar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #66,505 among 4,169 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,505
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lanzar, voluntaria o involuntariamente, un líquido a otras personas de manera que las moje o manche.
Corpus desk
Index ES-salpicar · salpicar · Spanish
salpicar · rank #66,505 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,505
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH salesiano
Nearest frequency peer: salesiano (-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 “salpicar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- salesiano
salesiano
33,497 corpus weight
- salpicar
salpicar
33,496 corpus weight
- sanando
sanando
33,495 corpus weight
- saqueador
saqueador
33,494 corpus weight
- secuaz
secuaz
33,493 corpus weight
- seducen
seducen
33,492 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “salpicar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salpicar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [salpiˈkaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,505 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “salpicar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
salpicar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #66,505 among 4,169 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [salpiˈkaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lanzar, voluntaria o involuntariamente, un líquido a otras personas de manera que las moje o manche.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for salpicar, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is salpicar, spelled S-A-L-P-I-C-A-R.
Definition
- 1Lanzar, voluntaria o involuntariamente, un líquido a otras personas de manera que las moje o manche.
This word in other languages
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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