abolengo
[aβ̞oˈlẽŋgo]
The verdict
“abolengo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #69,067 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,067
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ascendencia de abuelos o antepasados.
Corpus desk
Index ES-abolengo · abolengo · Spanish
abolengo · rank #69,067 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,067
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH Abisinia
Nearest frequency peer: Abisinia (-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 “abolengo”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- ínterin
ínterin
30,937 corpus weight
- Abisinia
Abisinia
30,935 corpus weight
- abolengo
abolengo
30,934 corpus weight
- abominables
abominables
30,933 corpus weight
- abominacion…
abominaciones
30,932 corpus weight
- abortan
abortan
30,931 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “abolengo” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abolengo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aβ̞oˈlẽŋgo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “abolengo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
abolengo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #69,067 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [aβ̞oˈlẽŋgo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for abolengo, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is abolengo, spelled A-B-O-L-E-N-G-O.
Definition
- 1Ascendencia de abuelos o antepasados.
- 2Ascendencia distinguida.
- 3Lugar de origen; origen étnico o biológico, nacionalidad.
- 4Herencia o patrimonio procedente de los abuelos.
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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