coal
/kəʊl/
The verdict
“coal” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #59,104 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,104
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Carbón, hulla.
Corpus desk
Index ES-coal · coal · Spanish
coal · rank #59,104 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,104
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH Coba
Nearest frequency peer: Coba (+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 “coal”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- cimarrones
cimarrones
40,902 corpus weight
- ciruelo
ciruelo
40,900 corpus weight
- clamar
clamar
40,899 corpus weight
- coal
coal
40,897 corpus weight
- Coba
Coba
40,896 corpus weight
- codifica
codifica
40,894 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “coal” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kəʊl/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #59,104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “coal” en español
Rare enough to double-check
coal is uncommon Spanish at frequency #59,104 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kəʊl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Carbón, hulla.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for coal, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is coal, spelled C-O-A-L.
Definition
- 1Carbón, hulla.
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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