recaba
[reˈkaβ̞a]
The verdict
“recaba” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #92,358 among 4,151 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,358
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de recabar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-recaba · recaba · Spanish
recaba · rank #92,358 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,358
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH rebozado
Nearest frequency peer: rebozado (-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 “recaba”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- rebosando
rebosando
7,645 corpus weight
- rebozado
rebozado
7,644 corpus weight
- recaba
recaba
7,643 corpus weight
- recalcan
recalcan
7,642 corpus weight
- recaudatoria
recaudatoria
7,641 corpus weight
- recesos
recesos
7,640 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “recaba” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recaba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [reˈkaβ̞a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #92,358 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “recaba” en español
Rare enough to double-check
recaba is uncommon Spanish at frequency #92,358 among 4,151 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [reˈkaβ̞a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for recaba, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is recaba, spelled R-E-C-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de recabar.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de recabar.
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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