vacation
/veɪ.ˈkeɪ.ʃən/
The verdict
“vacation” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #86,341 among 1,793 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,341
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,793
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vacaciones.
Corpus desk
Index ES-vacation · vacation · Spanish
vacation · rank #86,341 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,341
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,793
- PHOTO-FINISH vacilaciones
Nearest frequency peer: vacilaciones (+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 “vacation”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- usurpan
usurpan
13,662 corpus weight
- vacation
vacation
13,660 corpus weight
- vacilaciones
vacilaciones
13,659 corpus weight
- validadas
validadas
13,658 corpus weight
- validando
validando
13,657 corpus weight
- valoremos
valoremos
13,656 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “vacation” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vacation |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /veɪ.ˈkeɪ.ʃən/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,341 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “vacation” en español
Rare enough to double-check
vacation is uncommon Spanish at frequency #86,341 among 1,793 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /veɪ.ˈkeɪ.ʃən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for vacation in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 vacation, spelled V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Vacaciones.
- 2Descanso.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).