esperaste
[espeˈɾast̪e]
The verdict
“esperaste” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #79,129 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,129
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Segunda persona del singular (tú, vos) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de esperar o de esperarse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-esperaste · esperaste · Spanish
esperaste · rank #79,129 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,129
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH especulaba
Nearest frequency peer: especulaba (-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 “esperaste”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- escupieron
escupieron
20,876 corpus weight
- esotéricos
esotéricos
20,875 corpus weight
- espantando
espantando
20,874 corpus weight
- especulaba
especulaba
20,873 corpus weight
- esperaste
esperaste
20,872 corpus weight
- estabilizad…
estabilizadora
20,868 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “esperaste” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esperaste |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [espeˈɾast̪e] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,129 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “esperaste” en español
Rare enough to double-check
esperaste is uncommon Spanish at frequency #79,129 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [espeˈɾast̪e]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Segunda persona del singular (tú, vos) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de esperar o de esperarse.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for esperaste, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is esperaste, spelled E-S-P-E-R-A-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Segunda persona del singular (tú, vos) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de esperar o de esperarse.
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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