recent
/ˈɹiː.sənt/
The verdict
“recent” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #74,007 among 4,151 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,007
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que ha sucedido hace un rato, reciente.
Corpus desk
Index ES-recent · recent · Spanish
recent · rank #74,007 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,007
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH rebosantes
Nearest frequency peer: rebosantes (-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 “recent”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- rameras
rameras
25,997 corpus weight
- rebosantes
rebosantes
25,995 corpus weight
- recent
recent
25,994 corpus weight
- recicladas
recicladas
25,993 corpus weight
- redimido
redimido
25,991 corpus weight
- reflexionaba
reflexionaba
25,990 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “recent” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recent |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈɹiː.sənt/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,007 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “recent” en español
Rare enough to double-check
recent is uncommon Spanish at frequency #74,007 among 4,151 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈɹiː.sənt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for recent in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is recent, spelled R-E-C-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Que ha sucedido hace un rato, reciente.
- 2Actualizado; no anticuado.
- 3Que han hecho algo hace poco, lo que los distingue.
- 4Particularmente en geología, paleontología y astronomía: que ocurrió hace relativamente poco tiempo, pero potencialmente podría ser hace miles o incluso millones de años.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how recent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The cause has several hundred recent donors.
I met three recent graduates at the conference.
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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