quand
[kɑ̃]
The verdict
“quand” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #80,412 among 364 “Q” headwords), classed as a conjunction. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,412
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 364
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cuando.
Corpus desk
Index ES-quand · quand · Spanish
quand · rank #80,412 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,412
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 364
- PHOTO-FINISH péptido
Nearest frequency peer: péptido (-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 “quand”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- pusilánimes
pusilánimes
19,593 corpus weight
- puyo
puyo
19,592 corpus weight
- péptido
péptido
19,590 corpus weight
- quand
quand
19,589 corpus weight
- quarto
quarto
19,588 corpus weight
- quedadas
quedadas
19,587 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “quand” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quand |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| IPA | [kɑ̃] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,412 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “quand” en español
Rare enough to double-check
quand is uncommon Spanish at frequency #80,412 among 364 “Q” headwords, classed as aconjunction, transcribed [kɑ̃]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cuando.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for quand, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is quand, spelled Q-U-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1Cuando.
Synonyms
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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