stuck

/stʌk/

//stʌk// verb

The verdict

“stuck” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #79,595 among 4,169 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#79,595
frequency rank, Spanish
4,169
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pegó, clavó, pasado simple y participio pasado del verbo stick.

Corpus desk

Index ES-stuck · stuck · Spanish

stuck · rank #79,595 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #79,595
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,169
  • PHOTO-FINISH subestimación

Nearest frequency peer: subestimación (+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 “stuck”

Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “stuck” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for stuck
PropertyValue
Headwordstuck
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA/stʌk/
Letters5
Frequency rank#79,595
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cola larga: rango de “stuck” en español

La frecuencia va del puñado de palabras que usamos sin parar (izquierda) a la cola larga que apenas aparece (derecha).stuckcae en esta cola de rareza:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

La escala es logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× más rara). Vecinos raros de la misma franja: “subestimación” (#79,596), “sublevaron” (#79,597), “sublevarse” (#79,598). Entre 4,169 lemas con “S”, “stuck” va en #79,595. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

stuck is uncommon Spanish at frequency #79,595 among 4,169 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /stʌk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pegó, clavó, pasado simple y participio pasado del verbo stick.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for stuck, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is stuck, spelled S-T-U-C-K.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pegó, clavó, pasado simple y participio pasado del verbo stick.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "stuck"?
"stuck" is spelled S-T-U-C-K. The IPA pronunciation is /stʌk/.
What does "stuck" mean?
As a verb, "stuck" means: Pegó, clavó, pasado simple y participio pasado del verbo stick.
How do you pronounce "stuck"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "stuck" is /stʌk/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "stuck" come from?
"stuck" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "stuck", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list