colaba
[koˈlaβ̞a]
The verdict
“colaba” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #68,415 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,415
- 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 colar o de colarse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-colaba · colaba · Spanish
colaba · rank #68,415 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,415
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cojonuda
Nearest frequency peer: cojonuda (-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 “colaba”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Cipolletti
Cipolletti
31,592 corpus weight
- ciénagas
ciénagas
31,591 corpus weight
- cojonuda
cojonuda
31,587 corpus weight
- colaba
colaba
31,586 corpus weight
- Colín
Colín
31,583 corpus weight
- compadece
compadece
31,581 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “colaba” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colaba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [koˈlaβ̞a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,415 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “colaba” en español
Rare enough to double-check
colaba is uncommon Spanish at frequency #68,415 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [koˈlaβ̞a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for colaba in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is colaba, spelled C-O-L-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de colar o de colarse.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de colar o de colarse.
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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