sudoku
The verdict
“sudoku” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #72,326 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #72,326
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: 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...
| 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) |
Where “sudoku” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sudoku is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [suˈð̞oku]. Corpus data places it at rank #72,326 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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...".
No misspelling variants are generated for sudoku in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is sudoku, spelled S-U-D-O-K-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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
Frequency rank: #72,326 in Spanish
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Using “sudoku”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-U-D-O-K-U — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [suˈð̞oku] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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