Thanksgiving
/θæŋksˈgɪvɪŋ/
The verdict
“Thanksgiving” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #87,319 in Spanish word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #87,319
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Día de Acción de Gracias; festividad nacional de Canadá y EEUU en la que se agradece a Dios por los favores recibidos, las buenas cosechas, etc. Se celebra anualmente en Canadá el segundo lunes de ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Thanksgiving |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /θæŋksˈgɪvɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #87,319 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Thanksgiving” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Thanksgiving is 12 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /θæŋksˈgɪvɪŋ/. Corpus data places it at rank #87,319 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Día de Acción de Gracias; festividad nacional de Canadá y EEUU en la que se agradece a Dios por los favores recibidos, las buenas cosechas, etc. Se celebra anualmente en Canadá el segundo lunes de ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for Thanksgiving 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 Thanksgiving, spelled T-H-A-N-K-S-G-I-V-I-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Día de Acción de Gracias; festividad nacional de Canadá y EEUU en la que se agradece a Dios por los favores recibidos, las buenas cosechas, etc. Se celebra anualmente en Canadá el segundo lunes de octubre y en EEUU el cuarto jueves de noviembre.
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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Using “Thanksgiving”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-H-A-N-K-S-G-I-V-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /θæŋksˈgɪvɪŋ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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