steps
/stɛps/
The verdict
“steps” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #57,406 among 4,169 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,406
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del plural de step.
Corpus desk
Index ES-steps · steps · Spanish
steps · rank #57,406 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,406
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH suavizado
Nearest frequency peer: suavizado (+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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “steps”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- sorprenderán
sorprenderán
42,600 corpus weight
- sospechaban
sospechaban
42,599 corpus weight
- steps
steps
42,595 corpus weight
- suavizado
suavizado
42,593 corpus weight
- subrogada
subrogada
42,592 corpus weight
- substancial
substancial
42,591 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “steps” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | steps |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /stɛps/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,406 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “steps” en español
Rare enough to double-check
steps is uncommon Spanish at frequency #57,406 among 4,169 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /stɛps/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forma del plural de step.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for steps, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is steps, spelled S-T-E-P-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de step.
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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