empuña
[ẽmˈpuɲa]
The verdict
“empuña” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #86,737 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,737
- 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 presente de indicativo de empuñar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-empuna · empuña · Spanish
empuña · rank #86,737 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,737
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH empotrada
Nearest frequency peer: empotrada (-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 “empuña”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- empeoren
empeoren
13,266 corpus weight
- empotrada
empotrada
13,265 corpus weight
- empuña
empuña
13,264 corpus weight
- emulsiones
emulsiones
13,263 corpus weight
- encarcelando
encarcelando
13,262 corpus weight
- encontrarías
encontrarías
13,261 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “empuña” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empuña |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽmˈpuɲa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,737 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “empuña” en español
Rare enough to double-check
empuña is uncommon Spanish at frequency #86,737 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ẽmˈpuɲa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for empuña, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is empuña, spelled E-M-P-U-Ñ-A.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de empuñar.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de empuñar.
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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