alternaba
[al̪t̪eɾˈnaβ̞a]
The verdict
“alternaba” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #89,525 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,525
- 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 alternar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-alternaba · alternaba · Spanish
alternaba · rank #89,525 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,525
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH alpargata
Nearest frequency peer: alpargata (-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 “alternaba”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- aliena
aliena
10,480 corpus weight
- alpargata
alpargata
10,477 corpus weight
- alternaba
alternaba
10,476 corpus weight
- alternaban
alternaban
10,475 corpus weight
- alumbrados
alumbrados
10,473 corpus weight
- amanecía
amanecía
10,471 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “alternaba” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alternaba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [al̪t̪eɾˈnaβ̞a] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,525 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “alternaba” en español
Rare enough to double-check
alternaba is uncommon Spanish at frequency #89,525 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [al̪t̪eɾˈnaβ̞a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for alternaba in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 alternaba, spelled A-L-T-E-R-N-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de alternar.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de alternar.
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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