held
/hεld/
The verdict
“held” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #78,284 among 1,569 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,284
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,569
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pasado simple del verbo (to) hold.
Corpus desk
Index ES-held · held · Spanish
held · rank #78,284 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,284
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,569
- PHOTO-FINISH haríais
Nearest frequency peer: haríais (-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 “held”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- hablasen
hablasen
21,722 corpus weight
- Harare
Harare
21,720 corpus weight
- haríais
haríais
21,718 corpus weight
- held
held
21,717 corpus weight
- heredarán
heredarán
21,714 corpus weight
- hidrográfico
hidrográfico
21,713 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “held” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | held |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /hεld/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #78,284 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “held” en español
Rare enough to double-check
held is uncommon Spanish at frequency #78,284 among 1,569 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /hεld/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for held, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 held, spelled H-E-L-D.
Definition
- 1Pasado simple del verbo (to) hold.
- 2Participio pasado del verbo (to) hold.
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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