empeñó
[ẽmpeˈɲo]
The verdict
“empeñó” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #56,289 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,289
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de empeñar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-empeno · empeñó · Spanish
empeñó · rank #56,289 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,289
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH empeoraron
Nearest frequency peer: empeoraron (-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 “empeñó”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- emparejar
emparejar
43,715 corpus weight
- empeoraron
empeoraron
43,713 corpus weight
- empeñó
empeñó
43,712 corpus weight
- empobrece
empobrece
43,711 corpus weight
- enchiladas
enchiladas
43,710 corpus weight
- encuadrar
encuadrar
43,709 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “empeñó” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empeñó |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽmpeˈɲo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,289 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “empeñó” en español
Rare enough to double-check
empeñó is uncommon Spanish at frequency #56,289 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ẽmpeˈɲo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de empeñar.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for empeñó, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 empeñó, spelled E-M-P-E-Ñ-Ó.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de empeñar.
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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