postigo
[posˈt̪iɣ̞o]
The verdict
“postigo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #65,625 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,625
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Puerta falsa que ordinariamente está colocada en sitio excusado de la casa.
Corpus desk
Index ES-postigo · postigo · Spanish
postigo · rank #65,625 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,625
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH potosina
Nearest frequency peer: potosina (+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 “postigo”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Porcel
Porcel
34,380 corpus weight
- postigo
postigo
34,376 corpus weight
- potosina
potosina
34,375 corpus weight
- potrillo
potrillo
34,374 corpus weight
- precedidos
precedidos
34,373 corpus weight
- preferirá
preferirá
34,372 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “postigo” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | postigo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [posˈt̪iɣ̞o] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,625 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “postigo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
postigo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #65,625 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [posˈt̪iɣ̞o]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for postigo in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 postigo, spelled P-O-S-T-I-G-O.
Definition
- 1Puerta falsa que ordinariamente está colocada en sitio excusado de la casa.
- 2Puerta que está fabricada en una pieza sin tener división ni más de una hoja, la cual se asegura con llave, cerrojo, picaporte, etc.
- 3Puerta chica abierta en otra mayor.
- 4Cualquiera de las puertas no principales de una ciudad o villa.
- 5Puerta, generalmente de madera, que se coloca en exterior de la ventana o del balcón para proteger el interior de las condiciones atmosféricas desfavorables.
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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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