quiteña
[kiˈt̪eɲa]
The verdict
“quiteña” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #76,693 among 364 “Q” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,693
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 364
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del femenino singular de quiteño.
Corpus desk
Index ES-quitena · quiteña · Spanish
quiteña · rank #76,693 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,693
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 364
- PHOTO-FINISH queríais
Nearest frequency peer: queríais (-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 “quiteña”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- quebrantando
quebrantando
23,312 corpus weight
- queque
queque
23,310 corpus weight
- queríais
queríais
23,309 corpus weight
- quiteña
quiteña
23,308 corpus weight
- raccoon
raccoon
23,307 corpus weight
- razonabilid…
razonabilidad
23,304 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “quiteña” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quiteña |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [kiˈt̪eɲa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,693 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “quiteña” en español
Rare enough to double-check
quiteña is uncommon Spanish at frequency #76,693 among 364 “Q” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [kiˈt̪eɲa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forma del femenino singular de quiteño.".
Zero misspellings are on record for quiteña in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is quiteña, spelled Q-U-I-T-E-Ñ-A.
Definition
- 1Forma del femenino singular de quiteño.
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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