Welsh
/wɛlʃ/
The verdict
“Welsh” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #65,061 among 230 “W” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,061
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 230
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Galés; perteneciente o relativo a Gales, sus habitantes, o al idioma galés.
Corpus desk
Index ES-welsh · Welsh · Spanish
Welsh · rank #65,061 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,061
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 230
- PHOTO-FINISH wallet
Nearest frequency peer: wallet (-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 “Welsh”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- voltean
voltean
34,944 corpus weight
- volved
volved
34,943 corpus weight
- volvieras
volvieras
34,942 corpus weight
- wallet
wallet
34,941 corpus weight
- Welsh
Welsh
34,940 corpus weight
- who's
who's
34,938 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “Welsh” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Welsh |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /wɛlʃ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,061 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “Welsh” en español
Rare enough to double-check
Welsh is uncommon Spanish at frequency #65,061 among 230 “W” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /wɛlʃ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Galés; perteneciente o relativo a Gales, sus habitantes, o al idioma galés.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Welsh, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is Welsh, spelled W-E-L-S-H.
Definition
- 1Galés; perteneciente o relativo a Gales, sus habitantes, o al idioma galés.
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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