bisiesto
[biˈsjest̪o]
The verdict
“bisiesto” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #77,966 among 2,459 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,966
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se dice del año que tiene 366 días, generalmente añadiendo un día al mes de febrero. Ocurre cada cuatro años, para compensar un cuarto de día que se pierde en el calendario solar anualmente en rela...
Corpus desk
Index ES-bisiesto · bisiesto · Spanish
bisiesto · rank #77,966 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,966
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH Bitar
Nearest frequency peer: Bitar (+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 “bisiesto”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- bermeja
bermeja
22,041 corpus weight
- Bernier
Bernier
22,040 corpus weight
- bisiesto
bisiesto
22,035 corpus weight
- Bitar
Bitar
22,034 corpus weight
- bizcochitos
bizcochitos
22,033 corpus weight
- boloñesa
boloñesa
22,028 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “bisiesto” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bisiesto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [biˈsjest̪o] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,966 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “bisiesto” en español
Rare enough to double-check
bisiesto is uncommon Spanish at frequency #77,966 among 2,459 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [biˈsjest̪o]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se dice del año que tiene 366 días, generalmente añadiendo un día al mes de febrero. Ocurre cada cuatro años, para compensar un cuarto de día que se pierde en el calendario solar anualmente en rela...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bisiesto in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 bisiesto, spelled B-I-S-I-E-S-T-O.
Definition
- 1Se dice del año que tiene 366 días, generalmente añadiendo un día al mes de febrero. Ocurre cada cuatro años, para compensar un cuarto de día que se pierde en el calendario solar anualmente en relación con la rotación terrestre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bisiesto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cada cuatro años se aprecia en los calendarios un 29 de febrero. Este fenómeno es el año bisiesto
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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