acostaba
[akosˈt̪aβ̞a]
The verdict
“acostaba” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #57,499 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,499
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de acostar o de acostarse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-acostaba · acostaba · Spanish
acostaba · rank #57,499 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,499
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH acortando
Nearest frequency peer: acortando (-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 “acostaba”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- aconsejamos
aconsejamos
42,505 corpus weight
- acorralados
acorralados
42,504 corpus weight
- acortando
acortando
42,503 corpus weight
- acostaba
acostaba
42,502 corpus weight
- acota
acota
42,500 corpus weight
- acuestas
acuestas
42,499 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “acostaba” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acostaba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [akosˈt̪aβ̞a] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “acostaba” en español
Rare enough to double-check
acostaba is uncommon Spanish at frequency #57,499 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [akosˈt̪aβ̞a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for acostaba in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 acostaba, spelled A-C-O-S-T-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de acostar o de acostarse.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de acostar o de acostarse.
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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