colorín
[koloˈɾĩn]
The verdict
“colorín” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #81,818 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,818
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que tiene el pelo de color rojizo, entre el cobre y el caoba de acuerdo a la proporción de eumelanina y feomelanina
Corpus desk
Index ES-colorin · colorín · Spanish
colorín · rank #81,818 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,818
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH coltán
Nearest frequency peer: coltán (+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 “colorín”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- coletilla
coletilla
18,188 corpus weight
- colirio
colirio
18,187 corpus weight
- colorín
colorín
18,183 corpus weight
- coltán
coltán
18,181 corpus weight
- colérico
colérico
18,179 corpus weight
- comandando
comandando
18,178 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “colorín” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colorín |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [koloˈɾĩn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,818 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “colorín” en español
Rare enough to double-check
colorín is uncommon Spanish at frequency #81,818 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [koloˈɾĩn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Que tiene el pelo de color rojizo, entre el cobre y el caoba de acuerdo a la proporción de eumelanina y feomelanina".
No misspelling variants are generated for colorín in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 colorín, spelled C-O-L-O-R-Í-N.
Definition
- 1Que tiene el pelo de color rojizo, entre el cobre y el caoba de acuerdo a la proporción de eumelanina y feomelanina
This word in other languages
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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