tomahawk
[t̪omaˈxawk]
The verdict
“tomahawk” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #74,142 among 3,005 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,142
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tipo de hacha que era usada por los indios nativos estadounidenses, originalmente hecha de piedra, huesos o astas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-tomahawk · tomahawk · Spanish
tomahawk · rank #74,142 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,142
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH transcurra
Nearest frequency peer: transcurra (+2 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 “tomahawk”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- toboganes
toboganes
25,863 corpus weight
- Tokugawa
Tokugawa
25,862 corpus weight
- tomahawk
tomahawk
25,859 corpus weight
- transcurra
transcurra
25,857 corpus weight
- traspiés
traspiés
25,856 corpus weight
- trasplantado
trasplantado
25,855 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “tomahawk” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tomahawk |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪omaˈxawk] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,142 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “tomahawk” en español
Rare enough to double-check
tomahawk is uncommon Spanish at frequency #74,142 among 3,005 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [t̪omaˈxawk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
tomahawk doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is tomahawk, spelled T-O-M-A-H-A-W-K.
Definition
- 1Tipo de hacha que era usada por los indios nativos estadounidenses, originalmente hecha de piedra, huesos o astas.
- 2Trampa para animales que se compone de una jaula o enrejado, en forma de cubículo, de varias varillas de hierro, utilizada generalmente para la captura viva de mamíferos de tamaño medio.
- 3Ojo de bife.
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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