zac
[ˈsak]
The verdict
“zac” sits in 14 confusable pairs (corpus #31,163) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,163
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 220
- “Z” headwords
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Representa el ruido hecho por el golpe seco de un arma blanca, como, por ejemplo, el de un cuchillo al picar los alimentos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-zac · zac · Spanish
zac · rank #31,163 · 0 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,163
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 220
- PHOTO-FINISH Zepeda
Nearest frequency peer: Zepeda (+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 neighbours of confusable “zac”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- vivirán
vivirán
68,845 corpus weight
- voladora
voladora
68,843 corpus weight
- voltea
voltea
68,842 corpus weight
- zac
zac
68,838 corpus weight
- Zepeda
Zepeda
68,837 corpus weight
- ópticas
ópticas
68,834 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “zac” against nearest ranked Spanish headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zac |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsak] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #31,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Dónde se sitúa “zac” en la frecuencia del español
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for zac is neighbouring look-alikes ("ze", "zi", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈsak]. Frequency #31,163 among 220 “Z” headwords. Gloss: "Representa el ruido hecho por el golpe seco de un arma blanca, como, por ejemplo, el de un cuchillo al picar los alimentos.".
No misspelling variants are generated for zac in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "ze", "zi", "zoo", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is zac, spelled Z-A-C.
Definition
- 1Representa el ruido hecho por el golpe seco de un arma blanca, como, por ejemplo, el de un cuchillo al picar los alimentos.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).