skinny
/ˈskɪni/
The verdict
“skinny” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #56,672 among 4,169 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,672
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Muy delgado o delgada.
Corpus desk
Index ES-skinny · skinny · Spanish
skinny · rank #56,672 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,672
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH singularmente
Nearest frequency peer: singularmente (-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 “skinny”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- 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
- sobrados
sobrados
43,327 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “skinny” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cola larga: rango de “skinny” en español
Rare enough to double-check
skinny is uncommon Spanish at frequency #56,672 among 4,169 “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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