tick
/tɪk/
The verdict
“tick” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #53,900 among 34,400 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,900
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 34,400
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Garrapata.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tick |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tɪk/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #53,900 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tick” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
tick is uncommon Spanish at frequency #53,900 among 34,400 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /tɪk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tick, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is tick, spelled T-I-C-K.
Definition
- 1Garrapata.
- 2Marca.
- 3Momento.
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 “tick”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-I-C-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /tɪk/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.