thug
/θʌɡ/
The verdict
“thug” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #83,455 among 3,005 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,455
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Matón
Corpus desk
Index ES-thug · thug · Spanish
thug · rank #83,455 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,455
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH Thames
Nearest frequency peer: Thames (-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 “thug”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- testimonian
testimonian
16,549 corpus weight
- testo
testo
16,548 corpus weight
- Thames
Thames
16,547 corpus weight
- thug
thug
16,546 corpus weight
- thunderbolt
thunderbolt
16,545 corpus weight
- tibial
tibial
16,544 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “thug” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thug |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /θʌɡ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #83,455 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “thug” en español
Rare enough to double-check
thug is uncommon Spanish at frequency #83,455 among 3,005 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /θʌɡ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Matón".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for thug, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is thug, spelled T-H-U-G.
Definition
- 1Matón
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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