quejido
[keˈxið̞o]
The verdict
“quejido” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #72,238 among 3,200 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,238
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,200
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Voz que expresa dolor o pena y normalmente causa miedo y otros sentimientos al escucharlo. Se puede presentar en las personas o en los animales.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quejido |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [keˈxið̞o] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,238 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quejido” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
quejido is uncommon Spanish at frequency #72,238 among 3,200 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [keˈxið̞o]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Voz que expresa dolor o pena y normalmente causa miedo y otros sentimientos al escucharlo. Se puede presentar en las personas o en los animales.".
quejido doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 quejido, spelled Q-U-E-J-I-D-O.
Definition
- 1Voz que expresa dolor o pena y normalmente causa miedo y otros sentimientos al escucharlo. Se puede presentar en las personas o en los animales.
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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Using “quejido”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is Q-U-E-J-I-D-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [keˈxið̞o] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.