cercada
[seɾˈkað̞a]
The verdict
“cercada” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #52,769 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a participle. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,769
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del femenino de cercado, participio de cercar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cercada · cercada · Spanish
cercada · rank #52,769 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,769
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH changing
Nearest frequency peer: changing (+2 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 “cercada”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- català
català
47,237 corpus weight
- cautelosa
cautelosa
47,236 corpus weight
- cautelosos
cautelosos
47,235 corpus weight
- cercada
cercada
47,232 corpus weight
- changing
changing
47,230 corpus weight
- chequera
chequera
47,229 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cercada” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cercada |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Participle |
| IPA | [seɾˈkað̞a] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,769 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cercada” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cercada is uncommon Spanish at frequency #52,769 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as aparticiple, transcribed [seɾˈkað̞a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forma del femenino de cercado, participio de cercar.".
cercada doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is cercada, spelled C-E-R-C-A-D-A.
Definition
- 1Forma del femenino de cercado, participio de cercar.
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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