warm
/wɔːm/
The verdict
“warm” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #68,214 in Spanish word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #68,214
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Que tiene una temperatura ligeramente más alta que la usual, pero aún placentera; ligeramente caliente.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | warm |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /wɔːm/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #68,214 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “warm” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for warm is 4 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /wɔːm/. Corpus data places it at rank #68,214 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for warm, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 warm, spelled W-A-R-M.
Definition
- 1Que tiene una temperatura ligeramente más alta que la usual, pero aún placentera; ligeramente caliente.
- 2Que tiene un color en la parte roja-naranja-amarilla del espectro electromagnético; cálido.
- 3Cercano, frecuentemente usado en el contexto de un juego en el cual "warm" y "cold" son usados para indicar la cercanía al objetivo; caliente.
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 “warm”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is W-A-R-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /wɔːm/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.