fusta
[ˈfust̪a]
The verdict
“fusta” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #66,965 among 2,333 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,965
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Varilla flexible, recubierta de tela o cuero y a veces rematada por una trenza de tiento o una aleta de cuero, que se emplea por los jinetes para azuzar a sus monturas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-fusta · fusta · Spanish
fusta · rank #66,965 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,965
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH fundiendo
Nearest frequency peer: fundiendo (-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 “fusta”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- fríen
fríen
33,040 corpus weight
- funcionamos
funcionamos
33,039 corpus weight
- fundiendo
fundiendo
33,037 corpus weight
- fusta
fusta
33,036 corpus weight
- fútil
fútil
33,035 corpus weight
- gacho
gacho
33,033 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “fusta” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fusta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfust̪a] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “fusta” en español
Rare enough to double-check
fusta is uncommon Spanish at frequency #66,965 among 2,333 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈfust̪a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Varilla flexible, recubierta de tela o cuero y a veces rematada por una trenza de tiento o una aleta de cuero, que se emplea por los jinetes para azuzar a sus monturas.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fusta, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 fusta, spelled F-U-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1Varilla flexible, recubierta de tela o cuero y a veces rematada por una trenza de tiento o una aleta de cuero, que se emplea por los jinetes para azuzar a sus monturas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fusta appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
con esos ojos estrechos, claros y fríos, tan parecidos a los tuyos, te miraba de hito en hito. En seguida levantó la fusta que llevaba siempre consigo y te atravesó la cara, una, dos, tres veces.
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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