spes
/ˈspeːs/
The verdict
“spes” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #82,443 among 34,953 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,443
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 34,953
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Emoción o estado de esperanza, expectativa.
Corpus desk
Index ES-spes · spes · Spanish
spes · rank #82,443 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,443
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 34,953
- PHOTO-FINISH soportadas
Nearest frequency peer: soportadas (-2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “spes”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- soliloquio
soliloquio
17,564 corpus weight
- sometería
sometería
17,563 corpus weight
- sometiéndose
sometiéndose
17,562 corpus weight
- sopapo
sopapo
17,561 corpus weight
- soportadas
soportadas
17,560 corpus weight
- spes
spes
17,558 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “spes” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spes |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈspeːs/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #82,443 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “spes” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
spes is uncommon Spanish at frequency #82,443 among 34,953 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈspeːs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 8 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for spes in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is spes, spelled S-P-E-S.
Definition
- 1Emoción o estado de esperanza, expectativa.
- 2En sentido neutral: expectación, anticipación, previsión, presentimiento.
- 3Visto como una posibilidad objetiva: posibilidad, perspectiva; promesa.
- 4Objeto de la esperanza de uno.
- 5Persona o cosa en la que se centra la esperanza de uno.
- 6Persona o cosa en la que se centra la esperanza de uno.
- 7Persona o cosa en la que se centra la esperanza de uno.
- 8Esperanza personificada.
Synonyms
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "spes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.