contate
[kõn̪ˈt̪at̪e]
The verdict
“contate” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #79,002 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,002
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Segunda persona del singular (vos) del imperativo afirmativo de contarse (con el pronombre «te» enclítico).
Corpus desk
Index ES-contate · contate · Spanish
contate · rank #79,002 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,002
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH contentarse
Nearest frequency peer: contentarse (+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 “contate”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- constricción
constricción
21,005 corpus weight
- consultivos
consultivos
21,003 corpus weight
- consumidoras
consumidoras
21,002 corpus weight
- contate
contate
20,999 corpus weight
- contentarse
contentarse
20,997 corpus weight
- contrataba
contrataba
20,995 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “contate” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contate |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kõn̪ˈt̪at̪e] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “contate” en español
Rare enough to double-check
contate is uncommon Spanish at frequency #79,002 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [kõn̪ˈt̪at̪e]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Segunda persona del singular (vos) del imperativo afirmativo de contarse (con el pronombre «te» enclítico).".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for contate, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 contate, spelled C-O-N-T-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Segunda persona del singular (vos) del imperativo afirmativo de contarse (con el pronombre «te» enclítico).
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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