ukelele
[ukeˈlele]
The verdict
“ukelele” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #54,599 among 448 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,599
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 448
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrumento de cuerdas pulsadas, tradicional de las islas Hawai. Es un pariente cercano del cavaquinho portugués, del que en realidad es una adaptación hawaiana.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ukelele · ukelele · Spanish
ukelele · rank #54,599 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,599
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 448
- PHOTO-FINISH unionista
Nearest frequency peer: unionista (+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 “ukelele”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- twice
twice
45,405 corpus weight
- ukelele
ukelele
45,402 corpus weight
- unionista
unionista
45,400 corpus weight
- unitarias
unitarias
45,399 corpus weight
- vacunarse
vacunarse
45,398 corpus weight
- Valbuena
Valbuena
45,397 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “ukelele” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ukelele |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ukeˈlele] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,599 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “ukelele” en español
Rare enough to double-check
ukelele is uncommon Spanish at frequency #54,599 among 448 “U” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ukeˈlele]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Instrumento de cuerdas pulsadas, tradicional de las islas Hawai. Es un pariente cercano del cavaquinho portugués, del que en realidad es una adaptación hawaiana.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ukelele in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is ukelele, spelled U-K-E-L-E-L-E.
Definition
- 1Instrumento de cuerdas pulsadas, tradicional de las islas Hawai. Es un pariente cercano del cavaquinho portugués, del que en realidad es una adaptación hawaiana.
This word in other languages
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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