zafarse
[saˈfaɾse]
The verdict
“zafarse” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #64,296 among 220 “Z” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,296
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 220
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zafar (uso pronominal de ...)
Corpus desk
Index ES-zafarse · zafarse · Spanish
zafarse · rank #64,296 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,296
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 220
- PHOTO-FINISH émbolo
Nearest frequency peer: émbolo (+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 “zafarse”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- wonderful
wonderful
35,710 corpus weight
- yacían
yacían
35,708 corpus weight
- yolo
yolo
35,707 corpus weight
- zafarse
zafarse
35,705 corpus weight
- émbolo
émbolo
35,704 corpus weight
- abogaba
abogaba
35,699 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “zafarse” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zafarse |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [saˈfaɾse] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,296 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “zafarse” en español
Rare enough to double-check
zafarse is uncommon Spanish at frequency #64,296 among 220 “Z” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [saˈfaɾse]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for zafarse, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented 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 zafarse, spelled Z-A-F-A-R-S-E.
Definition
- 1Zafar (uso pronominal de ...)
- 2Dicho de un mecanismo: hacer juego, salirse del lugar en donde debería estar para funcionar un sistema correctamente.
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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