costeña
[kosˈt̪eɲa]
The verdict
“costeña” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #60,680 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,680
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del femenino singular de costeño.
Corpus desk
Index ES-costena · costeña · Spanish
costeña · rank #60,680 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,680
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH couple
Nearest frequency peer: couple (+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 “costeña”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- corsos
corsos
39,324 corpus weight
- cortadores
cortadores
39,323 corpus weight
- costeña
costeña
39,321 corpus weight
- couple
couple
39,320 corpus weight
- creator
creator
39,319 corpus weight
- crecería
crecería
39,318 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “costeña” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | costeña |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [kosˈt̪eɲa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,680 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “costeña” en español
Rare enough to double-check
costeña is uncommon Spanish at frequency #60,680 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [kosˈt̪eɲa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forma del femenino singular de costeño.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for costeña, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is costeña, spelled C-O-S-T-E-Ñ-A.
Definition
- 1Forma del femenino singular de costeño.
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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