patraña
[paˈt̪ɾaɲa]
The verdict
“patraña” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #50,463 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,463
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cosa dicha e inventada para engañar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-patrana · patraña · Spanish
patraña · rank #50,463 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,463
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH Patagones
Nearest frequency peer: Patagones (-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 “patraña”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- pasador
pasador
49,542 corpus weight
- pasamanos
pasamanos
49,541 corpus weight
- Patagones
Patagones
49,539 corpus weight
- patraña
patraña
49,538 corpus weight
- pausado
pausado
49,537 corpus weight
- pedorro
pedorro
49,534 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “patraña” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patraña |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [paˈt̪ɾaɲa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “patraña” en español
Rare enough to double-check
patraña is uncommon Spanish at frequency #50,463 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [paˈt̪ɾaɲa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for patraña, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is patraña, spelled P-A-T-R-A-Ñ-A.
Definition
- 1Cosa dicha e inventada para engañar.
- 2Noticia fabulosa inventada para divertir o entretener.
This word in other languages
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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