tick
/tɪk/
The verdict
“tick” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #53,900 among 3,005 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,900
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Garrapata.
Corpus desk
Index ES-tick · tick · Spanish
tick · rank #53,900 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,900
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH thousand
Nearest frequency peer: thousand (-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 “tick”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- temió
temió
46,106 corpus weight
- testaferros
testaferros
46,104 corpus weight
- thousand
thousand
46,102 corpus weight
- tick
tick
46,101 corpus weight
- tolerada
tolerada
46,098 corpus weight
- topar
topar
46,097 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “tick” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cola larga: rango de “tick” en español
Rare enough to double-check
tick is uncommon Spanish at frequency #53,900 among 3,005 “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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).