quichua
[ˈkit͡ʃwa]
The verdict
“quichua” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #71,361 among 364 “Q” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,361
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 364
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de quechua.
Corpus desk
Index ES-quichua · quichua · Spanish
quichua · rank #71,361 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,361
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 364
- PHOTO-FINISH Quibdó
Nearest frequency peer: Quibdó (-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 “quichua”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- quai
quai
28,644 corpus weight
- quemaste
quemaste
28,643 corpus weight
- Quibdó
Quibdó
28,641 corpus weight
- quichua
quichua
28,640 corpus weight
- rapsodia
rapsodia
28,637 corpus weight
- raquis
raquis
28,636 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “quichua” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quichua |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈkit͡ʃwa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,361 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “quichua” en español
Rare enough to double-check
quichua is uncommon Spanish at frequency #71,361 among 364 “Q” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈkit͡ʃwa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de quechua.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for quichua, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 quichua, spelled Q-U-I-C-H-U-A.
Definition
- 1Variante de quechua.
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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