played
/pleɪd/
The verdict
“played” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #87,111 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,111
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pasado simple del verbo (to) play.
Corpus desk
Index ES-played · played · Spanish
played · rank #87,111 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,111
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH plateros
Nearest frequency peer: plateros (-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 “played”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- pitonisa
pitonisa
12,894 corpus weight
- Placencia
Placencia
12,892 corpus weight
- plateros
plateros
12,891 corpus weight
- played
played
12,890 corpus weight
- playeros
playeros
12,889 corpus weight
- plenilunio
plenilunio
12,887 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “played” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | played |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /pleɪd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #87,111 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “played” en español
Rare enough to double-check
played is uncommon Spanish at frequency #87,111 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /pleɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
played doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is played, spelled P-L-A-Y-E-D.
Definition
- 1Pasado simple del verbo (to) play.
- 2Participio pasado del verbo (to) play.
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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