Welsh
/wɛlʃ/
The verdict
“Welsh” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #65,061 in Spanish word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #65,061
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Galés; perteneciente o relativo a Gales, sus habitantes, o al idioma galés.
| 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) |
Where “Welsh” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Welsh is 5 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /wɛlʃ/. Corpus data places it at rank #65,061 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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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Using “Welsh”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is W-E-L-S-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /wɛlʃ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.