quintal
[kĩn̪ˈt̪al]
The verdict
“quintal” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #80,416 among 364 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,416
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 364
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Peso de cien libras, o cuatro arrobas, equivalente en Castilla a 46 kilogramos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-quintal · quintal · Spanish
quintal · rank #80,416 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,416
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 364
- PHOTO-FINISH quisquillosos
Nearest frequency peer: quisquillosos (+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 “quintal”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- quand
quand
19,589 corpus weight
- quarto
quarto
19,588 corpus weight
- quedadas
quedadas
19,587 corpus weight
- quintal
quintal
19,585 corpus weight
- quisquillos…
quisquillosos
19,584 corpus weight
- radiofónicos
radiofónicos
19,581 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “quintal” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quintal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kĩn̪ˈt̪al] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,416 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “quintal” en español
Rare enough to double-check
quintal is uncommon Spanish at frequency #80,416 among 364 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kĩn̪ˈt̪al]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for quintal in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is quintal, spelled Q-U-I-N-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Peso de cien libras, o cuatro arrobas, equivalente en Castilla a 46 kilogramos.
- 2Pesa de cien libras o cuatro arrobas.
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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