survive
/səˈvɑɪv/
The verdict
“survive” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #80,524 among 4,169 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,524
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sobrevivir.
Corpus desk
Index ES-survive · survive · Spanish
survive · rank #80,524 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,524
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH surcar
Nearest frequency peer: surcar (-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 “survive”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- suponerse
suponerse
19,480 corpus weight
- surcado
surcado
19,479 corpus weight
- surcar
surcar
19,478 corpus weight
- survive
survive
19,477 corpus weight
- Susanne
Susanne
19,476 corpus weight
- suscritas
suscritas
19,475 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “survive” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | survive |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /səˈvɑɪv/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,524 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “survive” en español
Rare enough to double-check
survive is uncommon Spanish at frequency #80,524 among 4,169 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /səˈvɑɪv/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sobrevivir.".
survive has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is survive, spelled S-U-R-V-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Sobrevivir.
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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