cotejar
[kot̪eˈxaɾ]
The verdict
“cotejar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #50,165 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,165
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Confrontar o comparar dos o más cosas para apreciar sus semejanzas y diferencias, especialmente hablando de una copia con su original.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cotejar · cotejar · Spanish
cotejar · rank #50,165 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,165
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cortaste
Nearest frequency peer: cortaste (-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 “cotejar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- convirtieran
convirtieran
49,839 corpus weight
- corriera
corriera
49,838 corpus weight
- cortaste
cortaste
49,837 corpus weight
- cotejar
cotejar
49,836 corpus weight
- cotos
cotos
49,835 corpus weight
- Coyhaique
Coyhaique
49,834 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cotejar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cotejar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kot̪eˈxaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,165 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cotejar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cotejar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #50,165 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [kot̪eˈxaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Confrontar o comparar dos o más cosas para apreciar sus semejanzas y diferencias, especialmente hablando de una copia con su original.".
cotejar has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is cotejar, spelled C-O-T-E-J-A-R.
Definition
- 1Confrontar o comparar dos o más cosas para apreciar sus semejanzas y diferencias, especialmente hablando de una copia con su original.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cotejar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Algunos Autóres se han citado por los folios, ò páginas de sus obras, para mas conveniéncia de quien quisiere cotejar la autoridád que se refiere
This word in other languages
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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