licita
[liˈsit̪a]
The verdict
“licita” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #85,940 among 2,069 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,940
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” 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 licitar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-licita · licita · Spanish
licita · rank #85,940 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,940
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH libradas
Nearest frequency peer: libradas (-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 “licita”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Leza
Leza
14,065 corpus weight
- libertarismo
libertarismo
14,063 corpus weight
- libradas
libradas
14,062 corpus weight
- licita
licita
14,061 corpus weight
- lifetime
lifetime
14,060 corpus weight
- ligarse
ligarse
14,059 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “licita” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | licita |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [liˈsit̪a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “licita” en español
Rare enough to double-check
licita is uncommon Spanish at frequency #85,940 among 2,069 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [liˈsit̪a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
licita has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 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 licita, spelled L-I-C-I-T-A.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de licitar.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de licitar.
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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