skinny
/ˈskɪni/
The verdict
“skinny” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #56,672 among 34,953 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,672
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 34,953
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Muy delgado o delgada.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | skinny |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈskɪni/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,672 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “skinny” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
skinny is uncommon Spanish at frequency #56,672 among 34,953 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈskɪni/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for skinny in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is skinny, spelled S-K-I-N-N-Y.
Definition
- 1Muy delgado o delgada.
- 2Elaborado con leche descremada o desnatada.
- 3Cutáneo.
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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Using “skinny”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-K-I-N-N-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈskɪni/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.