recaía
[rekaˈia]
The verdict
“recaía” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #64,913 among 4,151 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,913
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de recaer.
Corpus desk
Index ES-recaia · recaía · Spanish
recaía · rank #64,913 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,913
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH recargada
Nearest frequency peer: recargada (-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 “recaía”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- rebajarse
rebajarse
35,090 corpus weight
- recargada
recargada
35,089 corpus weight
- recaía
recaía
35,088 corpus weight
- rechazará
rechazará
35,086 corpus weight
- recitó
recitó
35,085 corpus weight
- recobra
recobra
35,083 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “recaía” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recaía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [rekaˈia] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,913 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “recaía” en español
Rare enough to double-check
recaía is uncommon Spanish at frequency #64,913 among 4,151 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [rekaˈia]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for recaía, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is recaía, spelled R-E-C-A-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de recaer.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de recaer.
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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