curaba
[kuˈɾaβ̞a]
The verdict
“curaba” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #66,034 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,034
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de curar o de curarse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-curaba · curaba · Spanish
curaba · rank #66,034 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,034
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH curvado
Nearest frequency peer: curvado (+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 “curaba”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- cucharaditas
cucharaditas
33,971 corpus weight
- cucurucho
cucurucho
33,970 corpus weight
- curaba
curaba
33,967 corpus weight
- curvado
curvado
33,966 corpus weight
- cáustica
cáustica
33,965 corpus weight
- dancer
dancer
33,964 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “curaba” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | curaba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kuˈɾaβ̞a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,034 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “curaba” en español
Rare enough to double-check
curaba is uncommon Spanish at frequency #66,034 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [kuˈɾaβ̞a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
curaba doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 curaba, spelled C-U-R-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de curar o de curarse.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de curar o de curarse.
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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