cur
The verdict
“cur” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #71,778 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,778
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sustantivo verbal de cuir; puesta; siembra; enterramiento.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cur · cur · Spanish
cur · rank #71,778 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,778
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cubres
Nearest frequency peer: cubres (-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 “cur”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- crisálida
crisálida
28,228 corpus weight
- cruzará
cruzará
28,226 corpus weight
- cubres
cubres
28,225 corpus weight
- cur
cur
28,223 corpus weight
- cínicamente
cínicamente
28,221 corpus weight
- cómputos
cómputos
28,220 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cur” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cur |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #71,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cur” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cur is uncommon Spanish at frequency #71,778 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sustantivo verbal de cuir; puesta; siembra; enterramiento.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cur, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is cur, spelled C-U-R.
Definition
- 1Sustantivo verbal de cuir; puesta; siembra; enterramiento.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
… ach lig sise uirthi gurbh é an bia maith a bhí sí ag fáil a bhí ag cur an bhisigh sin uirthi.
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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