sefardí
[sefaɾˈð̞i]
The verdict
“sefardí” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #71,427 among 4,169 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,427
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Judío de la península ibérica (expulsado de España por los reyes católicos en 1492).
Corpus desk
Index ES-sefardi · sefardí · Spanish
sefardí · rank #71,427 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,427
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH seductoras
Nearest frequency peer: seductoras (-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 “sefardí”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Santamaria
Santamaria
28,577 corpus weight
- sargazo
sargazo
28,576 corpus weight
- seductoras
seductoras
28,575 corpus weight
- sefardí
sefardí
28,574 corpus weight
- sell
sell
28,573 corpus weight
- sentarán
sentarán
28,572 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “sefardí” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sefardí |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [sefaɾˈð̞i] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,427 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “sefardí” en español
Rare enough to double-check
sefardí is uncommon Spanish at frequency #71,427 among 4,169 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [sefaɾˈð̞i]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sefardí, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 sefardí, spelled S-E-F-A-R-D-Í.
Definition
- 1Judío de la península ibérica (expulsado de España por los reyes católicos en 1492).
- 2Todos aquellos judíos de origen distinto al askenazí (judíos de origen alemán, ruso o centroeuropeo) entonces de origen árabe, de Persia, Armenia, Georgia, Yemen e incluso India, que no guardan ningún vínculo con la cultura hispánica que distingue a los sefardíes.
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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