castiguen
[kasˈt̪iɣ̞ẽn]
The verdict
“castiguen” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #50,133 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,133
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de castigar o de castigarse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-castiguen · castiguen · Spanish
castiguen · rank #50,133 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,133
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cardiólogo
Nearest frequency peer: cardiólogo (-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 “castiguen”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- canteros
canteros
49,872 corpus weight
- caraqueños
caraqueños
49,870 corpus weight
- cardiólogo
cardiólogo
49,869 corpus weight
- castiguen
castiguen
49,868 corpus weight
- cecina
cecina
49,866 corpus weight
- cedar
cedar
49,865 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “castiguen” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | castiguen |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kasˈt̪iɣ̞ẽn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “castiguen” en español
Rare enough to double-check
castiguen is uncommon Spanish at frequency #50,133 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [kasˈt̪iɣ̞ẽn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for castiguen, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 castiguen, spelled C-A-S-T-I-G-U-E-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de castigar o de castigarse.
- 2Segunda persona del plural (ustedes) del imperativo de castigar o del imperativo negativo de castigarse.
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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