senegalés
[seneɣ̞aˈles]
The verdict
“senegalés” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #56,664 in Spanish word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #56,664
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Persona originaria o habitante de Senegal.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | senegalés |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [seneɣ̞aˈles] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,664 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “senegalés” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for senegalés is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [seneɣ̞aˈles]. Corpus data places it at rank #56,664 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for senegalés in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is senegalés, spelled S-E-N-E-G-A-L-É-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Persona originaria o habitante de Senegal.
- 2Se dice de algo que proviene o tiene relación con Senegal
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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- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-E-N-E-G-A-L-É-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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