exigua
[ekˈsiɣ̞wa]
The verdict
“exigua” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #59,253 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,253
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del femenino singular de exiguo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-exigua · exigua · Spanish
exigua · rank #59,253 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,253
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH excuse
Nearest frequency peer: excuse (-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 “exigua”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- everyone
everyone
40,752 corpus weight
- excusarse
excusarse
40,750 corpus weight
- excuse
excuse
40,749 corpus weight
- exigua
exigua
40,748 corpus weight
- expresos
expresos
40,745 corpus weight
- fantastic
fantastic
40,744 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “exigua” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exigua |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ekˈsiɣ̞wa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,253 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “exigua” en español
Rare enough to double-check
exigua is uncommon Spanish at frequency #59,253 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ekˈsiɣ̞wa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forma del femenino singular de exiguo.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for exigua, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 exigua, spelled E-X-I-G-U-A.
Definition
- 1Forma del femenino singular de exiguo.
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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