sore
/sɔː/
The verdict
“sore” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #94,648 among 4,169 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,648
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Penoso.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sore · sore · Spanish
sore · rank #94,648 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,648
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sostuviera
Nearest frequency peer: sostuviera (+3 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 “sore”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- sitting
sitting
5,364 corpus weight
- snowflake
snowflake
5,361 corpus weight
- solsticios
solsticios
5,358 corpus weight
- sore
sore
5,353 corpus weight
- sostuviera
sostuviera
5,350 corpus weight
- soterrado
soterrado
5,349 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “sore” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sore |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /sɔː/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #94,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “sore” en español
Rare enough to double-check
sore is uncommon Spanish at frequency #94,648 among 4,169 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /sɔː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sore, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is sore, spelled S-O-R-E.
Definition
- 1Penoso.
- 2Adolorido.
- 3Doloroso.
- 4Irritante.
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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