hula
[ˈula]
The verdict
“hula” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #50,989 among 1,569 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,989
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,569
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de hular.
Corpus desk
Index ES-hula · hula · Spanish
hula · rank #50,989 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,989
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,569
- PHOTO-FINISH hueón
Nearest frequency peer: hueón (-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 “hula”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- hubieren
hubieren
49,015 corpus weight
- huevada
huevada
49,014 corpus weight
- hueón
hueón
49,013 corpus weight
- hula
hula
49,012 corpus weight
- hélices
hélices
49,011 corpus weight
- ibis
ibis
49,010 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “hula” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hula |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈula] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,989 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “hula” en español
Rare enough to double-check
hula is uncommon Spanish at frequency #50,989 among 1,569 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈula]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hula, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 hula, spelled H-U-L-A.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de hular.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de hular.
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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