preceder
[pɾeseˈð̞eɾ]
The verdict
“preceder” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #95,594 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,594
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ir delante o anteceder en tiempo, orden o lugar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-preceder · preceder · Spanish
preceder · rank #95,594 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,594
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH precedía
Nearest frequency peer: precedía (+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 “preceder”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- postrero
postrero
4,411 corpus weight
- practicará
practicará
4,409 corpus weight
- preceder
preceder
4,407 corpus weight
- precedía
precedía
4,406 corpus weight
- prendiera
prendiera
4,404 corpus weight
- preparémonos
preparémonos
4,401 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “preceder” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | preceder |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pɾeseˈð̞eɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,594 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “preceder” en español
Rare enough to double-check
preceder is uncommon Spanish at frequency #95,594 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [pɾeseˈð̞eɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
preceder doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 preceder, spelled P-R-E-C-E-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Ir delante o anteceder en tiempo, orden o lugar.
- 2Anteceder o estar antepuesto.
- 3Tener una persona o una cosa preferencia, primacía o superioridad sobre otra.
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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