bandana
/bænˈdæn.ə/
The verdict
“bandana” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #76,995 among 2,459 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,995
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pañuelo grande o pañoleta,usualmente de colores; paliacate (México).
Corpus desk
Index ES-bandana · bandana · Spanish
bandana · rank #76,995 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,995
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH balcánica
Nearest frequency peer: balcánica (-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 “bandana”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Babia
Babia
23,010 corpus weight
- babilonios
babilonios
23,009 corpus weight
- babosadas
babosadas
23,008 corpus weight
- balcánica
balcánica
23,007 corpus weight
- bandana
bandana
23,006 corpus weight
- banderines
banderines
23,005 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “bandana” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bandana |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bænˈdæn.ə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,995 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “bandana” en español
Rare enough to double-check
bandana is uncommon Spanish at frequency #76,995 among 2,459 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bænˈdæn.ə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pañuelo grande o pañoleta,usualmente de colores; paliacate (México).".
bandana has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is bandana, spelled B-A-N-D-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1Pañuelo grande o pañoleta,usualmente de colores; paliacate (México).
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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