costillar
[kost̪iˈʝaɾ]
The verdict
“costillar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #79,018 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,018
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Conjunto de huesos llamados costillas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-costillar · costillar · Spanish
costillar · rank #79,018 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,018
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cosidas
Nearest frequency peer: cosidas (-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 “costillar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- corredoras
corredoras
20,988 corpus weight
- corretear
corretear
20,987 corpus weight
- cortesías
cortesías
20,986 corpus weight
- cosidas
cosidas
20,984 corpus weight
- costillar
costillar
20,983 corpus weight
- cramer
cramer
20,980 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “costillar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | costillar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kost̪iˈʝaɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,018 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “costillar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
costillar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #79,018 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kost̪iˈʝaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for costillar, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is costillar, spelled C-O-S-T-I-L-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1Conjunto de huesos llamados costillas.
- 2Parte del cuerpo en que van las costillas.
- 3Conjunto de las costillas o cuadernas de un buque, que forma la parte principal del esqueleto y a veces se toma por él mismo, o una voz por otra.
- 4Tipo de baile folclórico o tradicional de Chile, muy practicado en Chiloé.
Synonyms
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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