criaba
[ˈkɾjaβ̞a]
The verdict
“criaba” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #73,517 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,517
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de criar o de criarse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-criaba · criaba · Spanish
criaba · rank #73,517 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,517
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH costaleros
Nearest frequency peer: costaleros (-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 “criaba”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- cordobesas
cordobesas
26,488 corpus weight
- costaleros
costaleros
26,487 corpus weight
- criaba
criaba
26,484 corpus weight
- crueldades
crueldades
26,481 corpus weight
- cubriéndose
cubriéndose
26,479 corpus weight
- cuele
cuele
26,478 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “criaba” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | criaba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈkɾjaβ̞a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,517 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “criaba” en español
Rare enough to double-check
criaba is uncommon Spanish at frequency #73,517 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈkɾjaβ̞a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for criaba, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is criaba, spelled C-R-I-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de criar o de criarse.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de criar o de criarse.
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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