zamba
[ˈsãmba]
The verdict
“zamba” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #50,646 among 220 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,646
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 220
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Danza de pareja suelta independiente, de amplia dispersión geográfica en Argentina, que se baila intensamente en el norte y oeste del país.
Corpus desk
Index ES-zamba · zamba · Spanish
zamba · rank #50,646 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,646
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 220
- PHOTO-FINISH yucateca
Nearest frequency peer: yucateca (-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 “zamba”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- wise
wise
49,360 corpus weight
- yucateca
yucateca
49,356 corpus weight
- zamba
zamba
49,355 corpus weight
- zigzag
zigzag
49,354 corpus weight
- Zuloaga
Zuloaga
49,353 corpus weight
- árida
árida
49,352 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “zamba” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zamba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsãmba] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #50,646 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “zamba” en español
Rare enough to double-check
zamba is uncommon Spanish at frequency #50,646 among 220 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈsãmba]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for zamba in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is zamba, spelled Z-A-M-B-A.
Definition
- 1Danza de pareja suelta independiente, de amplia dispersión geográfica en Argentina, que se baila intensamente en el norte y oeste del país.
- 2Música de la zamba.
- 3Embuste.
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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