zángano
[ˈsãŋgano]
The verdict
“zángano” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #83,550 among 5,985 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,550
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,985
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Macho de la abeja, de mayor tamaño que las hembras infértiles y carente de aguijón. Vive sólo para el apareamiento, no trabajando en las labores de recolección de alimento ni cuidado de las larvas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-zangano · zángano · Spanish
zángano · rank #83,550 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,550
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,985
- PHOTO-FINISH Zaratustra
Nearest frequency peer: Zaratustra (-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 “zángano”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- yos
yos
16,454 corpus weight
- Zaratustra
Zaratustra
16,452 corpus weight
- zángano
zángano
16,451 corpus weight
- ñoña
ñoña
16,450 corpus weight
- aal
aal
16,442 corpus weight
- abandonarse
abandonarse
16,441 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “zángano” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zángano |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsãŋgano] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “zángano” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
zángano is uncommon Spanish at frequency #83,550 among 5,985 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈsãŋgano]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Macho de la abeja, de mayor tamaño que las hembras infértiles y carente de aguijón. Vive sólo para el apareamiento, no trabajando en las labores de recolección de alimento ni cuidado de las larvas.".
No misspelling variants are generated for zángano in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is zángano, spelled Z-Á-N-G-A-N-O.
Definition
- 1Macho de la abeja, de mayor tamaño que las hembras infértiles y carente de aguijón. Vive sólo para el apareamiento, no trabajando en las labores de recolección de alimento ni cuidado de las larvas.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.