SQL
[ˈese ˈku ˈele]
The verdict
“SQL” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,573) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,573
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lenguaje de programación declarativo de acceso a bases de datos relacionales que permite especificar diversos tipos de operaciones sobre las mismas. Una de sus características es el manejo del álge...
Corpus desk
Index ES-sql · SQL · Spanish
SQL · rank #28,573 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,573
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH Sota
Nearest frequency peer: Sota (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “SQL”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- soportando
soportando
71,431 corpus weight
- sorbo
sorbo
71,430 corpus weight
- Sota
Sota
71,429 corpus weight
- SQL
SQL
71,428 corpus weight
- strange
strange
71,427 corpus weight
- sulfato
sulfato
71,426 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “SQL” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | SQL |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈese ˈku ˈele] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #28,573 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “SQL”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for SQL is neighbouring look-alikes ("su", "st", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈese ˈku ˈele]. Frequency #28,573 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Lenguaje de programación declarativo de acceso a bases de datos relacionales que permite especificar diversos tipos de operaciones sobre las mismas. Una de sus características es el manejo del álge...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for SQL, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "su", "st", "sy", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is SQL, spelled S-Q-L.
Definition
- 1Lenguaje de programación declarativo de acceso a bases de datos relacionales que permite especificar diversos tipos de operaciones sobre las mismas. Una de sus características es el manejo del álgebra y el cálculo relacional que permite ejecutar consultas o actualización de información en una base de datos. Es un lenguaje de cuarta generación (4GL).
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).