touchdown
[t̪owt͡ʃˈð̞õwn]
The verdict
“touchdown” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #57,443 among 34,400 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,443
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 34,400
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - En el fútbol americano, anotación que vale seis puntos y que se consigue cuando un jugador ingresa en la zona de anotación rival corriendo con el balón en su poder o cuando, ya en ella, atrapa un p...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | touchdown |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪owt͡ʃˈð̞õwn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,443 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “touchdown” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
touchdown is uncommon Spanish at frequency #57,443 among 34,400 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [t̪owt͡ʃˈð̞õwn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "En el fútbol americano, anotación que vale seis puntos y que se consigue cuando un jugador ingresa en la zona de anotación rival corriendo con el balón en su poder o cuando, ya en ella, atrapa un p...".
touchdown doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is touchdown, spelled T-O-U-C-H-D-O-W-N.
Definition
- 1En el fútbol americano, anotación que vale seis puntos y que se consigue cuando un jugador ingresa en la zona de anotación rival corriendo con el balón en su poder o cuando, ya en ella, atrapa un pase efectuado por un compañero u obtiene la posesión de un balón suelto.
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 “touchdown”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-O-U-C-H-D-O-W-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.