granadero
[gɾanaˈð̞eɾo]
The verdict
“granadero” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #83,977 among 1,728 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,977
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soldado que se escogía por su elevada estatura y servía antiguamente para arrojar granadas de mano.
Corpus desk
Index ES-granadero · granadero · Spanish
granadero · rank #83,977 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,977
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH grades
Nearest frequency peer: grades (-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 “granadero”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- gomita
gomita
16,028 corpus weight
- gozosa
gozosa
16,027 corpus weight
- grades
grades
16,025 corpus weight
- granadero
granadero
16,024 corpus weight
- gritona
gritona
16,022 corpus weight
- guacha
guacha
16,020 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “granadero” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | granadero |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [gɾanaˈð̞eɾo] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “granadero” en español
Rare enough to double-check
granadero is uncommon Spanish at frequency #83,977 among 1,728 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [gɾanaˈð̞eɾo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
granadero has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is granadero, spelled G-R-A-N-A-D-E-R-O.
Definition
- 1Soldado que se escogía por su elevada estatura y servía antiguamente para arrojar granadas de mano.
- 2Soldado de elevada estatura perteneciente a una compañía que formaba a la cabeza del regimiento.
- 3Persona muy alta.
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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