sirte
[ˈsiɾt̪e]
The verdict
“sirte” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #78,668 among 4,169 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,668
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Banco de arena movediza en el mar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sirte · sirte · Spanish
sirte · rank #78,668 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,668
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sintonizando
Nearest frequency peer: sintonizando (-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 “sirte”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- sintetizada
sintetizada
21,336 corpus weight
- sintonizado
sintonizado
21,335 corpus weight
- sintonizando
sintonizando
21,334 corpus weight
- sirte
sirte
21,333 corpus weight
- sismológico
sismológico
21,332 corpus weight
- situamos
situamos
21,331 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “sirte” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sirte |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsiɾt̪e] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #78,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “sirte” en español
Rare enough to double-check
sirte is uncommon Spanish at frequency #78,668 among 4,169 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈsiɾt̪e]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
sirte has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is sirte, spelled S-I-R-T-E.
Definition
- 1Banco de arena movediza en el mar.
- 2Peñasco en medio del mar o de los golfos, con bancos de arena muy peligrosos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sirte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«Le roporcionó la ubicación exacta y le aconsejó que en llegando a esos lugares envueltos en un finísimo cendal de nieblas no navegara de noche y aguardara el día para sortear el inmenso collar de islas que protege como una sirte la entrada a ese lugar donde sin duda se hallan las maravillas del Primer jardín».
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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