basquetbolista
[basket̪β̞oˈlist̪a]
The verdict
“basquetbolista” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #78,895 among 2,459 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,895
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dicese del jugador o jugadora que practica el deporte del básquetbol.
Corpus desk
Index ES-basquetbolista · basquetbolista · Spanish
basquetbolista · rank #78,895 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,895
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH Baran
Nearest frequency peer: Baran (-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 “basquetbolista”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- bajamar
bajamar
21,110 corpus weight
- Baldo
Baldo
21,109 corpus weight
- Baran
Baran
21,107 corpus weight
- basquetboli…
basquetbolista
21,106 corpus weight
- belladona
belladona
21,104 corpus weight
- bellísimos
bellísimos
21,103 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “basquetbolista” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | basquetbolista |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [basket̪β̞oˈlist̪a] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #78,895 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “basquetbolista” en español
Rare enough to double-check
basquetbolista is uncommon Spanish at frequency #78,895 among 2,459 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [basket̪β̞oˈlist̪a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dicese del jugador o jugadora que practica el deporte del básquetbol.".
Zero misspellings are on record for basquetbolista in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is basquetbolista, spelled B-A-S-Q-U-E-T-B-O-L-I-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1Dicese del jugador o jugadora que practica el deporte del básquetbol.
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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