colada
"colada" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“colada” is uncommon English (frequency #55,333 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,333
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - piña colada
Corpus desk
Index EN-colada · colada · English
colada · rank #55,333 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,333
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH collectivist
Nearest frequency peer: collectivist (+2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “colada”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cleaves
cleaves
44,672 corpus weight
- cloudless
cloudless
44,671 corpus weight
- colada
colada
44,668 corpus weight
- collectivist
collectivist
44,666 corpus weight
- combe
combe
44,664 corpus weight
- concussed
concussed
44,663 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “colada” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colada |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,333 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “colada” in English
Rare enough to double-check
colada is uncommon English at frequency #55,333 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "piña colada".
No generated misspelling entries exist for colada in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 English form is colada, spelled C-O-L-A-D-A.
Definition
- 1piña colada
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how colada appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I wanted to give Debbie all the details of the weekend so she knew I hadn't hung around the bar drinking coladas the entire time.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).