cantata
[kãn̪ˈt̪at̪a]
The verdict
“cantata” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #64,438 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,438
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Composición poética extensa, para que se ponga en música y se cante.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cantata · cantata · Spanish
cantata · rank #64,438 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,438
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cansaba
Nearest frequency peer: cansaba (-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 “cantata”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- candil
candil
35,565 corpus weight
- cansaba
cansaba
35,564 corpus weight
- cantata
cantata
35,563 corpus weight
- careció
careció
35,561 corpus weight
- casquete
casquete
35,560 corpus weight
- caterva
caterva
35,559 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cantata” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cantata |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kãn̪ˈt̪at̪a] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,438 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cantata” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cantata is uncommon Spanish at frequency #64,438 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kãn̪ˈt̪at̪a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Composición poética extensa, para que se ponga en música y se cante.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cantata, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 cantata, spelled C-A-N-T-A-T-A.
Definition
- 1Composición poética extensa, para que se ponga en música y se cante.
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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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