sick
/sɪk/
The verdict
“sick” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #56,670 among 4,169 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,670
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enfermo, enferma.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sick · sick · Spanish
sick · rank #56,670 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,670
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH shut
Nearest frequency peer: shut (-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 “sick”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- sente
sente
43,335 corpus weight
- shut
shut
43,332 corpus weight
- sick
sick
43,331 corpus weight
- singularmen…
singularmente
43,330 corpus weight
- skinny
skinny
43,329 corpus weight
- sniper
sniper
43,328 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “sick” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sick |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /sɪk/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #56,670 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “sick” en español
Rare enough to double-check
sick is uncommon Spanish at frequency #56,670 among 4,169 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /sɪk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sick, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is sick, spelled S-I-C-K.
Definition
- 1Enfermo, enferma.
- 2Nauseabundo.
- 3Pésimo, de mal gusto.
- 4Propio o relacionado con la enfermedad.
- 5Increíble, excelente, bueno.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sick appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“They will take up serpents; and and if they drink anything deadly, it will no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
“That’s a sick joe.”
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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