costeño
[kosˈt̪eɲo]
The verdict
“costeño” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #52,818 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,818
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Propio de la costa o relativo a ella.
Corpus desk
Index ES-costeno · costeño · Spanish
costeño · rank #52,818 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,818
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH corrompida
Nearest frequency peer: corrompida (-3 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 “costeño”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- corcel
corcel
47,189 corpus weight
- corrijan
corrijan
47,187 corpus weight
- corrompida
corrompida
47,186 corpus weight
- costeño
costeño
47,183 corpus weight
- cualificaci…
cualificaciones
47,180 corpus weight
- cubero
cubero
47,178 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “costeño” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | costeño |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [kosˈt̪eɲo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,818 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “costeño” en español
Rare enough to double-check
costeño is uncommon Spanish at frequency #52,818 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [kosˈt̪eɲo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
costeño has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is costeño, spelled C-O-S-T-E-Ñ-O.
Definition
- 1Propio de la costa o relativo a ella.
- 2Que nació o se desarrolló en la costa o en sus inmediaciones.
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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