slap
/slæp/
The verdict
“slap” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #97,879 among 4,169 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,879
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Darle un manotazo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-slap · slap · Spanish
slap · rank #97,879 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,879
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sisto
Nearest frequency peer: sisto (-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 “slap”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- sierpe
sierpe
2,126 corpus weight
- sináptica
sináptica
2,124 corpus weight
- sisto
sisto
2,123 corpus weight
- slap
slap
2,122 corpus weight
- sobar
sobar
2,120 corpus weight
- sobrepuso
sobrepuso
2,119 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “slap” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | slap |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /slæp/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #97,879 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “slap” en español
Rare enough to double-check
slap is uncommon Spanish at frequency #97,879 among 4,169 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /slæp/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for slap, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 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 slap, spelled S-L-A-P.
Definition
- 1Darle un manotazo.
- 2Darle una bofetada.
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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