slave
/sleɪv/
The verdict
“slave” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #71,444 among 4,169 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,444
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Esclavo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-slave · slave · Spanish
slave · rank #71,444 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,444
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH smiles
Nearest frequency peer: smiles (+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 “slave”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- simbolizando
simbolizando
28,561 corpus weight
- simulaba
simulaba
28,560 corpus weight
- slave
slave
28,557 corpus weight
- smiles
smiles
28,556 corpus weight
- sobrevuelan
sobrevuelan
28,555 corpus weight
- socorros
socorros
28,554 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “slave” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | slave |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sleɪv/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #71,444 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “slave” en español
Rare enough to double-check
slave is uncommon Spanish at frequency #71,444 among 4,169 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /sleɪv/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Esclavo.".
slave has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is slave, spelled S-L-A-V-E.
Definition
- 1Esclavo.
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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