candidate
/ˈkæn.dɪ.deɪt/
The verdict
“candidate” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #86,559 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,559
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Candidato.
Corpus desk
Index ES-candidate · candidate · Spanish
candidate · rank #86,559 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,559
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH Campoy
Nearest frequency peer: Campoy (-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 “candidate”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- calientas
calientas
13,445 corpus weight
- Campoy
Campoy
13,443 corpus weight
- candidate
candidate
13,442 corpus weight
- cantonales
cantonales
13,441 corpus weight
- capuchinas
capuchinas
13,440 corpus weight
- capuchón
capuchón
13,439 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “candidate” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | candidate |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkæn.dɪ.deɪt/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #86,559 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “candidate” en español
Rare enough to double-check
candidate is uncommon Spanish at frequency #86,559 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkæn.dɪ.deɪt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Candidato.".
No misspelling variants are generated for candidate 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, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is candidate, spelled C-A-N-D-I-D-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Candidato.
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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