susurrar
[susuˈraɾ]
The verdict
“susurrar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #62,681 among 4,169 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,681
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hablar en voz baja, quedamente, produciendo un sonido suave y continuado, de murmullo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-susurrar · susurrar · Spanish
susurrar · rank #62,681 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,681
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH suspicaz
Nearest frequency peer: suspicaz (-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 “susurrar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- superpotenc…
superpotencias
37,325 corpus weight
- supremas
supremas
37,323 corpus weight
- suspicaz
suspicaz
37,321 corpus weight
- susurrar
susurrar
37,320 corpus weight
- sádica
sádica
37,318 corpus weight
- tabula
tabula
37,316 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “susurrar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | susurrar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [susuˈraɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “susurrar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
susurrar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #62,681 among 4,169 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [susuˈraɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
susurrar doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is susurrar, spelled S-U-S-U-R-R-A-R.
Definition
- 1Hablar en voz baja, quedamente, produciendo un sonido suave y continuado, de murmullo.
- 2Comenzar a divulgarse, difundirse o extenderse alguna información que estaba en secreto o no se conocía.
- 3Referido a movimientos del medio ambiente como el agua, el viento, las hojas de los árboles, etc., producir o emitir un sonido suave, apagado y apacible.
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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