bagatela
[baɣ̞aˈt̪ela]
The verdict
“bagatela” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #86,505 among 2,459 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,505
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cosa de poco valor o importancia.
Corpus desk
Index ES-bagatela · bagatela · Spanish
bagatela · rank #86,505 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,505
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH bacteriología
Nearest frequency peer: bacteriología (-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 “bagatela”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- avisad
avisad
13,502 corpus weight
- azuladas
azuladas
13,500 corpus weight
- bacteriolog…
bacteriología
13,497 corpus weight
- bagatela
bagatela
13,496 corpus weight
- bajarían
bajarían
13,492 corpus weight
- balancearse
balancearse
13,491 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “bagatela” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bagatela |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [baɣ̞aˈt̪ela] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,505 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “bagatela” en español
Rare enough to double-check
bagatela is uncommon Spanish at frequency #86,505 among 2,459 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [baɣ̞aˈt̪ela]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bagatela, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is bagatela, spelled B-A-G-A-T-E-L-A.
Definition
- 1Cosa de poco valor o importancia.
- 2Por extensión, asunto o problema de poco valor o importancia.
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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