quejido
[keˈxið̞o]
The verdict
“quejido” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #72,238 among 364 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,238
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 364
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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.
Corpus desk
Index ES-quejido · quejido · Spanish
quejido · rank #72,238 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,238
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 364
- PHOTO-FINISH quebranta
Nearest frequency peer: quebranta (-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 “quejido”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- pulidos
pulidos
27,768 corpus weight
- quam
quam
27,766 corpus weight
- quebranta
quebranta
27,764 corpus weight
- quejido
quejido
27,763 corpus weight
- quemadores
quemadores
27,762 corpus weight
- quincenales
quincenales
27,759 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “quejido” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cola larga: rango de “quejido” en español
Rare enough to double-check
quejido is uncommon Spanish at frequency #72,238 among 364 “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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