soslayar
[soslaˈʝaɾ]
The verdict
“soslayar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #84,380 among 4,169 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,380
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Colocar un objeto ladeado para cruzar una zona estrecha de un lado a otro.
Corpus desk
Index ES-soslayar · soslayar · Spanish
soslayar · rank #84,380 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,380
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sorprendiera
Nearest frequency peer: sorprendiera (-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 “soslayar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- sofocación
sofocación
15,625 corpus weight
- sommer
sommer
15,624 corpus weight
- sopesando
sopesando
15,623 corpus weight
- sorprendiera
sorprendiera
15,622 corpus weight
- soslayar
soslayar
15,621 corpus weight
- sospechen
sospechen
15,619 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “soslayar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soslayar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [soslaˈʝaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,380 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “soslayar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
soslayar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #84,380 among 4,169 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [soslaˈʝaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for soslayar, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is soslayar, spelled S-O-S-L-A-Y-A-R.
Definition
- 1Colocar un objeto ladeado para cruzar una zona estrecha de un lado a otro.
- 2Pasar por alto, sortear, evitar u obviar un asunto.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how soslayar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
No intentes soslayar las órdenes que te he dado.
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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