sudoku
[suˈð̞oku]
The verdict
“sudoku” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #72,326 among 4,169 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,326
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pasatiempo popular cuyo objetivo es rellenar una cuadrícula de 9 × 9 celdas (81 casillas) dividida en subcuadrículas de 3 × 3 (también llamadas "cajas" o "regiones") con las cifras del 1 al 9 parti...
Corpus desk
Index ES-sudoku · sudoku · Spanish
sudoku · rank #72,326 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,326
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH suburbanas
Nearest frequency peer: suburbanas (-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 “sudoku”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- suburbanas
suburbanas
27,676 corpus weight
- sudoku
sudoku
27,675 corpus weight
- sumate
sumate
27,674 corpus weight
- sumos
sumos
27,673 corpus weight
- supervisan
supervisan
27,670 corpus weight
- suscitando
suscitando
27,669 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “sudoku” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sudoku |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [suˈð̞oku] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #72,326 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “sudoku” en español
Rare enough to double-check
sudoku is uncommon Spanish at frequency #72,326 among 4,169 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [suˈð̞oku]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pasatiempo popular cuyo objetivo es rellenar una cuadrícula de 9 × 9 celdas (81 casillas) dividida en subcuadrículas de 3 × 3 (también llamadas "cajas" o "regiones") con las cifras del 1 al 9 parti...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sudoku, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is sudoku, spelled S-U-D-O-K-U.
Definition
- 1Pasatiempo popular cuyo objetivo es rellenar una cuadrícula de 9 × 9 celdas (81 casillas) dividida en subcuadrículas de 3 × 3 (también llamadas "cajas" o "regiones") con las cifras del 1 al 9 partiendo de algunos números ya dispuestos en algunas de las celdas. No se debe repetir ninguna cifra en una misma fila, columna o subcuadrícula.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).