taken
/ˈteɪ.kən/
The verdict
“taken” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #62,686 among 3,005 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,686
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que está atraído o encariñado con algo o alguien.
Corpus desk
Index ES-taken · taken · Spanish
taken · rank #62,686 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,686
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH tabula
Nearest frequency peer: tabula (-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 “taken”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- suspicaz
suspicaz
37,321 corpus weight
- susurrar
susurrar
37,320 corpus weight
- sádica
sádica
37,318 corpus weight
- tabula
tabula
37,316 corpus weight
- taken
taken
37,315 corpus weight
- tant
tant
37,314 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “taken” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taken |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈteɪ.kən/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,686 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “taken” en español
Rare enough to double-check
taken is uncommon Spanish at frequency #62,686 among 3,005 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈteɪ.kən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
taken has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is taken, spelled T-A-K-E-N.
Definition
- 1Que está atraído o encariñado con algo o alguien.
- 2Que tiene una relación sentimental.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).