costaban
[kosˈt̪aβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“costaban” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #53,454 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,454
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de costar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-costaban · costaban · Spanish
costaban · rank #53,454 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,454
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cosechan
Nearest frequency peer: cosechan (-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 “costaban”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- convexo
convexo
46,550 corpus weight
- cosechan
cosechan
46,548 corpus weight
- costaban
costaban
46,547 corpus weight
- coup
coup
46,546 corpus weight
- coworking
coworking
46,545 corpus weight
- coágulo
coágulo
46,544 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “costaban” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | costaban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kosˈt̪aβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,454 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “costaban” en español
Rare enough to double-check
costaban is uncommon Spanish at frequency #53,454 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [kosˈt̪aβ̞ãn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de costar.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for costaban in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is costaban, spelled C-O-S-T-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de costar.
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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