madrugadas
[mað̞ɾuˈɣ̞að̞as]
The verdict
“madrugadas” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #55,720 among 3,868 “M” headwords), classed as a participle. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,720
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del femenino plural de madrugado, participio de madrugar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-madrugadas · madrugadas · Spanish
madrugadas · rank #55,720 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,720
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH Magaly
Nearest frequency peer: Magaly (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “madrugadas”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Luanda
Luanda
44,285 corpus weight
- machacado
machacado
44,283 corpus weight
- madrugadas
madrugadas
44,281 corpus weight
- Magaly
Magaly
44,280 corpus weight
- manejes
manejes
44,277 corpus weight
- maniquíes
maniquíes
44,276 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “madrugadas” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | madrugadas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Participle |
| IPA | [mað̞ɾuˈɣ̞að̞as] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #55,720 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “madrugadas” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
madrugadas is uncommon Spanish at frequency #55,720 among 3,868 “M” headwords, classed as aparticiple, transcribed [mað̞ɾuˈɣ̞að̞as]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forma del femenino plural de madrugado, participio de madrugar.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for madrugadas in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is madrugadas, spelled M-A-D-R-U-G-A-D-A-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del femenino plural de madrugado, participio de madrugar.
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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