colla
[ˈkoʝa]
The verdict
“colla” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #62,155 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,155
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Persona originaria o perteneciente a una etnia de indígenas que habita en el occidente de Bolivia, principalmente, y un poco en zonas fronterizas del noreste altiplanico de Argentina, norte Chile y...
Corpus desk
Index ES-colla · colla · Spanish
colla · rank #62,155 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,155
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH colapsan
Nearest frequency peer: colapsan (-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 “colla”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- coeur
coeur
37,848 corpus weight
- colapsan
colapsan
37,847 corpus weight
- colla
colla
37,846 corpus weight
- comandaba
comandaba
37,845 corpus weight
- compactación
compactación
37,844 corpus weight
- compartiría
compartiría
37,843 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “colla” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈkoʝa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,155 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “colla” en español
Rare enough to double-check
colla is uncommon Spanish at frequency #62,155 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈkoʝa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for colla in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is colla, spelled C-O-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Persona originaria o perteneciente a una etnia de indígenas que habita en el occidente de Bolivia, principalmente, y un poco en zonas fronterizas del noreste altiplanico de Argentina, norte Chile y sureste del Perú.
- 2Se dice de algo que pertenece o tiene relación con los collas₁
- 3Por extensión, persona que habita el Altiplano de Argentina, Chile o Bolivia y entre sus ancestros a alguno de los pueblos amerindios que habitaron la zona, como diaguitas, atacameños y omaguacas que si aceptaron al imperio inca, pero se refiere más los quechuas y aimaras. Son poblaciones mestizas y en su mayoría hablan el castellano.
- 4Que pertenece o tiene relación con los collas₃
- 5Persona que vive en las provincias altiplánicas del occidente de Bolivia.
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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