cuesten
[ˈkwest̪ẽn]
The verdict
“cuesten” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #80,854 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,854
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de costar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cuesten · cuesten · Spanish
cuesten · rank #80,854 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,854
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cuartetas
Nearest frequency peer: cuartetas (-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 “cuesten”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- cualesquier
cualesquier
19,150 corpus weight
- cuarcita
cuarcita
19,149 corpus weight
- cuartetas
cuartetas
19,148 corpus weight
- cuesten
cuesten
19,147 corpus weight
- culiar
culiar
19,146 corpus weight
- cumplís
cumplís
19,145 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cuesten” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuesten |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈkwest̪ẽn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cuesten” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cuesten is uncommon Spanish at frequency #80,854 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈkwest̪ẽn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for cuesten in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is cuesten, spelled C-U-E-S-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de costar.
- 2Segunda persona del plural (ustedes) del imperativo de costar.
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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