cuate
[ˈkwat̪e]
The verdict
“cuate” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #53,463 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,463
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Persona querida con afecto desinteresado y muy estrecho, especialmente si no está unida por lazos de parentesco.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cuate · cuate · Spanish
cuate · rank #53,463 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,463
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cuerdos
Nearest frequency peer: cuerdos (+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 “cuate”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- coágulo
coágulo
46,544 corpus weight
- create
create
46,542 corpus weight
- crezcas
crezcas
46,541 corpus weight
- cuate
cuate
46,538 corpus weight
- cuerdos
cuerdos
46,536 corpus weight
- cumplieran
cumplieran
46,535 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cuate” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuate |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkwat̪e] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cuate” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cuate is uncommon Spanish at frequency #53,463 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkwat̪e]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Persona querida con afecto desinteresado y muy estrecho, especialmente si no está unida por lazos de parentesco.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cuate in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 cuate, spelled C-U-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Persona querida con afecto desinteresado y muy estrecho, especialmente si no está unida por lazos de parentesco.
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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