cribado
[kɾiˈβ̞að̞o]
The verdict
“cribado” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #74,394 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,394
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Método de separación de elementos de diferente tamaño por medio de barreras con orificios o cribas que permiten el paso de los más pequeños y retienen a los mayores.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cribado · cribado · Spanish
cribado · rank #74,394 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,394
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH crecieran
Nearest frequency peer: crecieran (-2 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 “cribado”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- cosidos
cosidos
25,612 corpus weight
- crecieran
crecieran
25,609 corpus weight
- cribado
cribado
25,607 corpus weight
- croto
croto
25,605 corpus weight
- cuatrienio
cuatrienio
25,603 corpus weight
- culmen
culmen
25,602 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cribado” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cribado |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kɾiˈβ̞að̞o] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,394 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cribado” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cribado is uncommon Spanish at frequency #74,394 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kɾiˈβ̞að̞o]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
cribado doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is cribado, spelled C-R-I-B-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1Método de separación de elementos de diferente tamaño por medio de barreras con orificios o cribas que permiten el paso de los más pequeños y retienen a los mayores.
- 2Carga de carbón mineral que ha sido seleccionada por el tamaño del trozo que debe ser mayor a 45 mm de longitud.
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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