cow
/kaʊ/
The verdict
“cow” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #62,197 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,197
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vaca.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cow · cow · Spanish
cow · rank #62,197 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,197
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cougar
Nearest frequency peer: cougar (-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 “cow”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- cosiendo
cosiendo
37,809 corpus weight
- cotillón
cotillón
37,806 corpus weight
- cougar
cougar
37,805 corpus weight
- cow
cow
37,804 corpus weight
- crediticias
crediticias
37,802 corpus weight
- culpados
culpados
37,800 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cow” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cow |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kaʊ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #62,197 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cow” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cow is uncommon Spanish at frequency #62,197 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kaʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vaca.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cow in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is cow, spelled C-O-W.
Definition
- 1Vaca.
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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