scam
/skæm/
The verdict
“scam” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #88,293 among 4,169 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,293
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Estafa, timo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-scam · scam · Spanish
scam · rank #88,293 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,293
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sazonar
Nearest frequency peer: sazonar (-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 “scam”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- sarga
sarga
11,712 corpus weight
- sartorius
sartorius
11,711 corpus weight
- sazonar
sazonar
11,709 corpus weight
- scam
scam
11,708 corpus weight
- segoviano
segoviano
11,705 corpus weight
- seibo
seibo
11,704 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “scam” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scam |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /skæm/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #88,293 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “scam” en español
Rare enough to double-check
scam is uncommon Spanish at frequency #88,293 among 4,169 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /skæm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Estafa, timo.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for scam, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is scam, spelled S-C-A-M.
Definition
- 1Estafa, timo.
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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