parpadea
[paɾpaˈð̞ea]
The verdict
“parpadea” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #57,987 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,987
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” 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 parpadear.
Corpus desk
Index ES-parpadea · parpadea · Spanish
parpadea · rank #57,987 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,987
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH parodiando
Nearest frequency peer: parodiando (-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 “parpadea”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- palpar
palpar
42,017 corpus weight
- parasitaria
parasitaria
42,016 corpus weight
- parodiando
parodiando
42,015 corpus weight
- parpadea
parpadea
42,014 corpus weight
- partio
partio
42,013 corpus weight
- patean
patean
42,011 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “parpadea” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parpadea |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [paɾpaˈð̞ea] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,987 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “parpadea” en español
Rare enough to double-check
parpadea is uncommon Spanish at frequency #57,987 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [paɾpaˈð̞ea]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for parpadea in our index, 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, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is parpadea, spelled P-A-R-P-A-D-E-A.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de parpadear.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de parpadear.
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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