antojaba
[ãn̪t̪oˈxaβ̞a]
The verdict
“antojaba” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #91,572 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,572
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de antojarse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-antojaba · antojaba · Spanish
antojaba · rank #91,572 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,572
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH anniversary
Nearest frequency peer: anniversary (-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 “antojaba”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- aniquilaron
aniquilaron
8,431 corpus weight
- anniversary
anniversary
8,430 corpus weight
- antojaba
antojaba
8,429 corpus weight
- antológico
antológico
8,428 corpus weight
- anímica
anímica
8,427 corpus weight
- aparcó
aparcó
8,426 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “antojaba” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | antojaba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ãn̪t̪oˈxaβ̞a] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,572 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “antojaba” en español
Rare enough to double-check
antojaba is uncommon Spanish at frequency #91,572 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ãn̪t̪oˈxaβ̞a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de antojarse.".
antojaba doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 antojaba, spelled A-N-T-O-J-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de antojarse.
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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