smoking
/ˈsməʊ.kɪŋ/
The verdict
“smoking” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #51,237 in Spanish word frequency and used as a verb.
- #51,237
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Participio presente y gerundio del verbo (to) smoke.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | smoking |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈsməʊ.kɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,237 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “smoking” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for smoking is 7 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈsməʊ.kɪŋ/. Corpus data places it at rank #51,237 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Participio presente y gerundio del verbo (to) smoke.".
Zero misspellings are on record for smoking in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 smoking, spelled S-M-O-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Participio presente y gerundio del verbo (to) smoke.
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 “smoking”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-M-O-K-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈsməʊ.kɪŋ/ (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.