cuentagotas
[kwẽn̪t̪aˈɣ̞ot̪as]
The verdict
“cuentagotas” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #58,397 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,397
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Utensilio, generalmente de vidrio o plástico, que permite suministrar un líquido gota a gota.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cuentagotas · cuentagotas · Spanish
cuentagotas · rank #58,397 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,397
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cubriría
Nearest frequency peer: cubriría (-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 “cuentagotas”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- crunch
crunch
41,607 corpus weight
- cuadrangula…
cuadrangulares
41,606 corpus weight
- cubriría
cubriría
41,605 corpus weight
- cuentagotas
cuentagotas
41,604 corpus weight
- curativa
curativa
41,602 corpus weight
- cóncava
cóncava
41,601 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cuentagotas” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuentagotas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kwẽn̪t̪aˈɣ̞ot̪as] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #58,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cuentagotas” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cuentagotas is uncommon Spanish at frequency #58,397 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kwẽn̪t̪aˈɣ̞ot̪as]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Utensilio, generalmente de vidrio o plástico, que permite suministrar un líquido gota a gota.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cuentagotas, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is cuentagotas, spelled C-U-E-N-T-A-G-O-T-A-S.
Definition
- 1Utensilio, generalmente de vidrio o plástico, que permite suministrar un líquido gota a gota.
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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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