yak
[ˈʝak]
The verdict
“yak” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #53,953 among 177 “Y” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,953
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 177
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bóvido de gran tamaño y pelaje lanoso nativo de las montañas de Asia Central y el Himalaya. Es un animal gregario de pelo invariablemente largo y negro, con una joroba sobre los hombros y cuernos l...
Corpus desk
Index ES-yak · yak · Spanish
yak · rank #53,953 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,953
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 177
- PHOTO-FINISH yogures
Nearest frequency peer: yogures (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “yak”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- véanse
véanse
46,056 corpus weight
- xunta
xunta
46,050 corpus weight
- yak
yak
46,048 corpus weight
- yogures
yogures
46,047 corpus weight
- zarista
zarista
46,045 corpus weight
- zorrillo
zorrillo
46,043 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “yak” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yak |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʝak] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #53,953 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Dónde se sitúa “yak” en la frecuencia del español
Rare enough to double-check
yak is uncommon Spanish at frequency #53,953 among 177 “Y” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʝak]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bóvido de gran tamaño y pelaje lanoso nativo de las montañas de Asia Central y el Himalaya. Es un animal gregario de pelo invariablemente largo y negro, con una joroba sobre los hombros y cuernos l...".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for yak, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is yak, spelled Y-A-K.
Definition
- 1Bóvido de gran tamaño y pelaje lanoso nativo de las montañas de Asia Central y el Himalaya. Es un animal gregario de pelo invariablemente largo y negro, con una joroba sobre los hombros y cuernos largos.
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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