venal
[beˈnal]
The verdict
“venal” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #90,466 among 1,793 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,466
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,793
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Propio de las venas o relacionado con ellas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-venal · venal · Spanish
venal · rank #90,466 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,466
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,793
- PHOTO-FINISH vengadora
Nearest frequency peer: vengadora (+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 “venal”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- vaticanos
vaticanos
9,538 corpus weight
- vehicle
vehicle
9,537 corpus weight
- venal
venal
9,535 corpus weight
- vengadora
vengadora
9,534 corpus weight
- vicious
vicious
9,533 corpus weight
- videoconfer…
videoconferencias
9,532 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “venal” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | venal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [beˈnal] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,466 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “venal” en español
Rare enough to double-check
venal is uncommon Spanish at frequency #90,466 among 1,793 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [beˈnal]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Propio de las venas o relacionado con ellas.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for venal, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 venal, spelled V-E-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Propio de las venas o relacionado con ellas.
Synonyms
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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