instaba
[ĩnsˈt̪aβ̞a]
The verdict
“instaba” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #58,610 among 3,428 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,610
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,428
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de instar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-instaba · instaba · Spanish
instaba · rank #58,610 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,610
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,428
- PHOTO-FINISH inscríbete
Nearest frequency peer: inscríbete (-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 “instaba”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- inquietas
inquietas
41,394 corpus weight
- inscriban
inscriban
41,393 corpus weight
- inscríbete
inscríbete
41,392 corpus weight
- instaba
instaba
41,391 corpus weight
- instruida
instruida
41,390 corpus weight
- intercultur…
interculturales
41,387 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “instaba” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | instaba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ĩnsˈt̪aβ̞a] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,610 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “instaba” en español
Rare enough to double-check
instaba is uncommon Spanish at frequency #58,610 among 3,428 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ĩnsˈt̪aβ̞a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for instaba, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is instaba, spelled I-N-S-T-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de instar.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de instar.
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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