sherpa
[ˈʃeɾpa]
The verdict
“sherpa” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #79,568 among 4,169 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,568
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que pertenece o concierne al pueblo sherpa, nativo de las montañas de Nepal y la Región Autónoma del Tíbet.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sherpa · sherpa · Spanish
sherpa · rank #79,568 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,568
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH shy
Nearest frequency peer: shy (+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 “sherpa”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- seísmo
seísmo
20,438 corpus weight
- shack
shack
20,436 corpus weight
- sherpa
sherpa
20,433 corpus weight
- shy
shy
20,432 corpus weight
- silenciadas
silenciadas
20,429 corpus weight
- simbolizado
simbolizado
20,428 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “sherpa” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sherpa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈʃeɾpa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,568 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “sherpa” en español
Rare enough to double-check
sherpa is uncommon Spanish at frequency #79,568 among 4,169 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈʃeɾpa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sherpa, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is sherpa, spelled S-H-E-R-P-A.
Definition
- 1Que pertenece o concierne al pueblo sherpa, nativo de las montañas de Nepal y la Región Autónoma del Tíbet.
- 2Que pertenece o concierne a la lengua sherpa.
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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