centellas
[sẽn̪ˈt̪eʝas]
The verdict
“centellas” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #50,139 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,139
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Segunda persona del singular (tú) del presente de indicativo de centellar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-centellas · centellas · Spanish
centellas · rank #50,139 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,139
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cercados
Nearest frequency peer: cercados (+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 “centellas”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- cecina
cecina
49,866 corpus weight
- cedar
cedar
49,865 corpus weight
- Celina
Celina
49,864 corpus weight
- centellas
centellas
49,862 corpus weight
- cercados
cercados
49,861 corpus weight
- chinguen
chinguen
49,857 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “centellas” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | centellas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [sẽn̪ˈt̪eʝas] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,139 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “centellas” en español
Rare enough to double-check
centellas is uncommon Spanish at frequency #50,139 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [sẽn̪ˈt̪eʝas]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Segunda persona del singular (tú) del presente de indicativo de centellar.".
Zero misspellings are on record for centellas in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is centellas, spelled C-E-N-T-E-L-L-A-S.
Definition
- 1Segunda persona del singular (tú) del presente de indicativo de centellar.
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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