estafan
[esˈt̪afãn]
The verdict
“estafan” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #66,920 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,920
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de estafar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-estafan · estafan · Spanish
estafan · rank #66,920 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,920
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH establecimos
Nearest frequency peer: establecimos (-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 “estafan”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- esse
esse
33,083 corpus weight
- establecimos
establecimos
33,082 corpus weight
- estafan
estafan
33,081 corpus weight
- estereotipa…
estereotipada
33,080 corpus weight
- estudiantina
estudiantina
33,078 corpus weight
- evaluadores
evaluadores
33,077 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “estafan” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | estafan |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [esˈt̪afãn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,920 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “estafan” en español
Rare enough to double-check
estafan is uncommon Spanish at frequency #66,920 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [esˈt̪afãn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de estafar.".
estafan has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, 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 estafan, spelled E-S-T-A-F-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de estafar.
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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