swing

/[ˈswĩŋ]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#25,058

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

18

similar word pairs

swing is aSpanishnoun. It means: Género musical derivado del jazz, muy popular en las décadas de 1920 y 1930 en los Estados Unidos. Pronounced [ˈswĩŋ]. Often confused with sin and sig.

Key facts for swing
PropertyValue
Headwordswing
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈswĩŋ]
Letters5
Frequency rank#25,058
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of swing in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for swing is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈswĩŋ]. Corpus data places it at rank #25,058 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Género musical derivado del jazz, muy popular en las décadas de 1920 y 1930 en los Estados Unidos.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for swing, with forms such as "siwng", "sswing", and "swign". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "sin", "sig", "sino", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 swing, spelled S-W-I-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Género musical derivado del jazz, muy popular en las décadas de 1920 y 1930 en los Estados Unidos.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: siwng,sswing,swign,swingg,swinng,swnig,swwing,wsing

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for swing

Misspelling Variants of "swing"

siwng5sswing6swign5swingg6swinng6swnig5swwing6wsing5
Misspelling Variants of "swing"

Frequency rank: #25,058 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "swing"?
"swing" is spelled S-W-I-N-G. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈswĩŋ].
What does "swing" mean?
As a noun, "swing" means: Género musical derivado del jazz, muy popular en las décadas de 1920 y 1930 en los Estados Unidos.
What words are commonly confused with "swing"?
"swing" is commonly confused with "sin", "sig", "sino". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "swing"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "swing" is [ˈswĩŋ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "swing" come from?
"swing" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.