zap
/zæp/
The verdict
“zap” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #71,551 among 220 “Z” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,551
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 220
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zas (onomatopeya para imitar el sonido de una descarga de electricidad o de energía similar)..
Corpus desk
Index ES-zap · zap · Spanish
zap · rank #71,551 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,551
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 220
- PHOTO-FINISH Yesenia
Nearest frequency peer: Yesenia (-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 “zap”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- widget
widget
28,457 corpus weight
- yerma
yerma
28,452 corpus weight
- Yesenia
Yesenia
28,451 corpus weight
- zap
zap
28,450 corpus weight
- zócalos
zócalos
28,447 corpus weight
- ñora
ñora
28,446 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “zap” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zap |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /zæp/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #71,551 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “zap” en español
Rare enough to double-check
zap is uncommon Spanish at frequency #71,551 among 220 “Z” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed /zæp/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Zas (onomatopeya para imitar el sonido de una descarga de electricidad o de energía similar)..".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for zap, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is zap, spelled Z-A-P.
Definition
- 1Zas (onomatopeya para imitar el sonido de una descarga de electricidad o de energía similar)..
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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