clamaba
[klaˈmaβ̞a]
The verdict
“clamaba” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #73,475 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,475
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de clamar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-clamaba · clamaba · Spanish
clamaba · rank #73,475 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,475
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cochinada
Nearest frequency peer: cochinada (+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 “clamaba”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- chil
chil
26,533 corpus weight
- clamaba
clamaba
26,526 corpus weight
- cochinada
cochinada
26,524 corpus weight
- colaborará
colaborará
26,522 corpus weight
- colaron
colaron
26,521 corpus weight
- colombino
colombino
26,518 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “clamaba” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clamaba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [klaˈmaβ̞a] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,475 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “clamaba” en español
Rare enough to double-check
clamaba is uncommon Spanish at frequency #73,475 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [klaˈmaβ̞a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for clamaba, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is clamaba, spelled C-L-A-M-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de clamar.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de clamar.
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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