sobresalía
[soβ̞ɾesaˈlia]
The verdict
“sobresalía” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #67,302 among 4,169 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,302
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de sobresalir.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sobresalia · sobresalía · Spanish
sobresalía · rank #67,302 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,302
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sobornado
Nearest frequency peer: sobornado (-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 “sobresalía”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- sicilianos
sicilianos
32,704 corpus weight
- simbionte
simbionte
32,703 corpus weight
- smooth
smooth
32,701 corpus weight
- sobornado
sobornado
32,700 corpus weight
- sobresalía
sobresalía
32,699 corpus weight
- soldadas
soldadas
32,696 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “sobresalía” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sobresalía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [soβ̞ɾesaˈlia] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #67,302 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “sobresalía” en español
Rare enough to double-check
sobresalía is uncommon Spanish at frequency #67,302 among 4,169 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [soβ̞ɾesaˈlia]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sobresalía, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is sobresalía, spelled S-O-B-R-E-S-A-L-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de sobresalir.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de sobresalir.
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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