wasabi
[waˈsaβ̞i]
The verdict
“wasabi” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #68,215 among 230 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,215
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 230
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Especie de planta de la familia Brassicaceae, la cual incluye las coles, el rábano picante y la mostaza.
Corpus desk
Index ES-wasabi · wasabi · Spanish
wasabi · rank #68,215 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,215
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 230
- PHOTO-FINISH warm
Nearest frequency peer: warm (-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 “wasabi”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- vivid
vivid
31,791 corpus weight
- volcando
volcando
31,790 corpus weight
- vuélvete
vuélvete
31,789 corpus weight
- warm
warm
31,787 corpus weight
- wasabi
wasabi
31,786 corpus weight
- Winona
Winona
31,783 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “wasabi” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wasabi |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [waˈsaβ̞i] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,215 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “wasabi” en español
Rare enough to double-check
wasabi is uncommon Spanish at frequency #68,215 among 230 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [waˈsaβ̞i]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
wasabi has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is wasabi, spelled W-A-S-A-B-I.
Definition
- 1Especie de planta de la familia Brassicaceae, la cual incluye las coles, el rábano picante y la mostaza.
- 2Condimento japonés que se extrae de la raíz de la planta Eutrema japonicum, conocida también bajo los sinónimos Cochlearia wasabi y Wasabia japonica, de la familia del repollo. Tiene un sabor extremadamente fuerte y se utiliza principalmente mezclado con la salsa de soja.
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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