sober
/ˈsəʊ.bə(ɹ)/
The verdict
“sober” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #86,249 among 4,169 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,249
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sobrio
Corpus desk
Index ES-sober · sober · Spanish
sober · rank #86,249 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,249
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sobornando
Nearest frequency peer: sobornando (+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 “sober”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- sinaloenses
sinaloenses
13,757 corpus weight
- sinovial
sinovial
13,756 corpus weight
- sober
sober
13,752 corpus weight
- sobornando
sobornando
13,751 corpus weight
- sobrecogedo…
sobrecogedora
13,750 corpus weight
- sodomitas
sodomitas
13,749 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “sober” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sober |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈsəʊ.bə(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,249 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “sober” en español
Rare enough to double-check
sober is uncommon Spanish at frequency #86,249 among 4,169 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈsəʊ.bə(ɹ)/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sobrio".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sober, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is sober, spelled S-O-B-E-R.
Definition
- 1Sobrio
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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