espuela
[esˈpwela]
The verdict
“espuela” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #69,374 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,374
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espiga metálica que se colocan en el talón de las botas de quien cabalga, con el propósito de dirigir los movimientos del caballo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-espuela · espuela · Spanish
espuela · rank #69,374 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,374
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH esperanzadora
Nearest frequency peer: esperanzadora (-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 “espuela”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- escuálido
escuálido
30,630 corpus weight
- esmerado
esmerado
30,629 corpus weight
- esperanzado…
esperanzadora
30,628 corpus weight
- espuela
espuela
30,627 corpus weight
- espían
espían
30,626 corpus weight
- estadías
estadías
30,624 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “espuela” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | espuela |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [esˈpwela] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,374 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “espuela” en español
Rare enough to double-check
espuela is uncommon Spanish at frequency #69,374 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [esˈpwela]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for espuela, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 espuela, spelled E-S-P-U-E-L-A.
Definition
- 1Espiga metálica que se colocan en el talón de las botas de quien cabalga, con el propósito de dirigir los movimientos del caballo.
- 2Por extensión cosa que sirve para estimular.
- 3Última bebida que toma una persona antes de partir del lugar donde se encuentra.
- 4Apófisis ósea de las aves.
- 5Espoleta (horquilla de las clavículas del ave).
This word in other languages
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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