columba
[koˈlum.ba]
The verdict
“columba” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #71,731 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,731
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (familia Columbidae) Paloma (doméstica)
Corpus desk
Index ES-columba · columba · Spanish
columba · rank #71,731 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,731
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH colour
Nearest frequency peer: colour (-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 “columba”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Colomer
Colomer
28,272 corpus weight
- colour
colour
28,271 corpus weight
- columba
columba
28,270 corpus weight
- comisura
comisura
28,269 corpus weight
- comparecerá
comparecerá
28,268 corpus weight
- compartiste
compartiste
28,267 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “columba” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | columba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [koˈlum.ba] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “columba” en español
Rare enough to double-check
columba is uncommon Spanish at frequency #71,731 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [koˈlum.ba]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(familia Columbidae) Paloma (doméstica)".
No generated misspelling entries exist for columba in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is columba, spelled C-O-L-U-M-B-A.
Definition
- 1(familia Columbidae) Paloma (doméstica)
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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