corvo
[ˈkoɾβ̞o]
The verdict
“corvo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #81,854 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,854
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que está arqueado, combado o torcido, de modo que su forma o contornos no siguen una línea o dirección recta sino cóncava o convexa.
Corpus desk
Index ES-corvo · corvo · Spanish
corvo · rank #81,854 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,854
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH corticales
Nearest frequency peer: corticales (-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 “corvo”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- copando
copando
18,152 corpus weight
- corregimos
corregimos
18,151 corpus weight
- corticales
corticales
18,148 corpus weight
- corvo
corvo
18,147 corpus weight
- cosméticas
cosméticas
18,146 corpus weight
- cotarro
cotarro
18,143 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “corvo” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | corvo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈkoɾβ̞o] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “corvo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
corvo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #81,854 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈkoɾβ̞o]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Que está arqueado, combado o torcido, de modo que su forma o contornos no siguen una línea o dirección recta sino cóncava o convexa.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for corvo in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 corvo, spelled C-O-R-V-O.
Definition
- 1Que está arqueado, combado o torcido, de modo que su forma o contornos no siguen una línea o dirección recta sino cóncava o convexa.
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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