cumpleañero
[kũmpleaˈɲeɾo]
The verdict
“cumpleañero” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #65,254 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,254
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Persona que celebra su cumpleaños.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cumpleanero · cumpleañero · Spanish
cumpleañero · rank #65,254 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,254
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cuidaré
Nearest frequency peer: cuidaré (-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 “cumpleañero”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- crédulos
crédulos
34,752 corpus weight
- cuidadito
cuidadito
34,749 corpus weight
- cuidaré
cuidaré
34,748 corpus weight
- cumpleañero
cumpleañero
34,747 corpus weight
- custodiados
custodiados
34,744 corpus weight
- cállense
cállense
34,743 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cumpleañero” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cumpleañero |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kũmpleaˈɲeɾo] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #65,254 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cumpleañero” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cumpleañero is uncommon Spanish at frequency #65,254 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kũmpleaˈɲeɾo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cumpleañero, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is cumpleañero, spelled C-U-M-P-L-E-A-Ñ-E-R-O.
Definition
- 1Persona que celebra su cumpleaños.
- 2Persona que cumple años.
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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