carretes
[kaˈret̪es]
The verdict
“carretes” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #54,733 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,733
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del plural de carrete.
Corpus desk
Index ES-carretes · carretes · Spanish
carretes · rank #54,733 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,733
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH carneros
Nearest frequency peer: carneros (-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 “carretes”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- camuflados
camuflados
45,272 corpus weight
- carneros
carneros
45,269 corpus weight
- carretes
carretes
45,268 corpus weight
- cartográfica
cartográfica
45,267 corpus weight
- catapulta
catapulta
45,266 corpus weight
- catholic
catholic
45,265 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “carretes” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carretes |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈret̪es] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “carretes” en español
Rare enough to double-check
carretes is uncommon Spanish at frequency #54,733 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kaˈret̪es]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forma del plural de carrete.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for carretes, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is carretes, spelled C-A-R-R-E-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de carrete.
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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