urso
[ˈuɾso]
The verdict
“urso” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #94,755 among 448 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,755
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 448
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hombre alto y corpulento.
Corpus desk
Index ES-urso · urso · Spanish
urso · rank #94,755 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,755
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 448
- PHOTO-FINISH Urquiola
Nearest frequency peer: Urquiola (-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 “urso”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- urdida
urdida
5,249 corpus weight
- urgidos
urgidos
5,248 corpus weight
- Urquiola
Urquiola
5,247 corpus weight
- urso
urso
5,246 corpus weight
- usinas
usinas
5,245 corpus weight
- utillaje
utillaje
5,244 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “urso” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | urso |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈuɾso] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #94,755 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “urso” en español
Rare enough to double-check
urso is uncommon Spanish at frequency #94,755 among 448 “U” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈuɾso]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hombre alto y corpulento.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for urso in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is urso, spelled U-R-S-O.
Definition
- 1Hombre alto y corpulento.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how urso appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
el macho salió a correr a mi primo, que es un urso de casi dos metros.
Basada en una novela de Cressida Cowell, Cómo entrenar a tu dragón –que en Argentina se presenta en copias subtituladas y dobladas, en formatos 3-D y 2-D– imagina que los vikingos eran unos ursos hirsutos, dedicados a matar dragones a sillazos.
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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