cornada
[koɾˈnað̞a]
The verdict
“cornada” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #79,930 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,930
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - La herida hecha por el cuerno de un animal.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cornada · cornada · Spanish
cornada · rank #79,930 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,930
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH Corominas
Nearest frequency peer: Corominas (+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 “cornada”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- contraídos
contraídos
20,075 corpus weight
- convengan
convengan
20,073 corpus weight
- cornada
cornada
20,071 corpus weight
- Corominas
Corominas
20,070 corpus weight
- coronaron
coronaron
20,069 corpus weight
- corregí
corregí
20,068 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cornada” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cornada |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [koɾˈnað̞a] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,930 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cornada” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cornada is uncommon Spanish at frequency #79,930 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [koɾˈnað̞a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for cornada in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 cornada, spelled C-O-R-N-A-D-A.
Definition
- 1La herida hecha por el cuerno de un animal.
- 2Treta de la destreza vulgar
- 3Acción de herir con el cuerno y el golpe dado con él
- 4En esgrima, estocada de cuarta forzada que se dirige al costado del adversario
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cornada appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Se divertía en degollar con sanguinaria lentitud los capones para el consumo, pero muy bien se guardaba de hacer lo mismo con las vacunos, por bien asegurados que estuvieran, pues tienen astas y basta un movimiento en falso para recibir una cornada, ó por lo menos un golpe
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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