contraportada
[kõn̪t̪ɾapoɾˈt̪að̞a]
The verdict
“contraportada” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #51,484 among 77,812 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,484
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 77,812
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Página que va atrás de la portada. Puede ser una réplica de la portada pero con la diferencia de que, mientras la portada se imprime en pastas duras, la contraportada va en el mismo papel que la te...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contraportada |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kõn̪t̪ɾapoɾˈt̪að̞a] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #51,484 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “contraportada” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
contraportada is uncommon Spanish at frequency #51,484 among 77,812 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kõn̪t̪ɾapoɾˈt̪að̞a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for contraportada, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is contraportada, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-P-O-R-T-A-D-A.
Definition
- 1Página que va atrás de la portada. Puede ser una réplica de la portada pero con la diferencia de que, mientras la portada se imprime en pastas duras, la contraportada va en el mismo papel que la tesis.
- 2Página par posterior a la portadilla, o página del título, generalmente blanca.
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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Using “contraportada”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-O-N-T-R-A-P-O-R-T-A-D-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.