traban
[ˈt̪ɾaβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“traban” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #70,690 among 3,005 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,690
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de trabar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-traban · traban · Spanish
traban · rank #70,690 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,690
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH Tomic
Nearest frequency peer: Tomic (-2 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 “traban”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- tit
tit
29,315 corpus weight
- tok
tok
29,314 corpus weight
- Tomic
Tomic
29,313 corpus weight
- traban
traban
29,311 corpus weight
- tranquiliza…
tranquilizarse
29,308 corpus weight
- transfieran
transfieran
29,307 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “traban” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | traban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈt̪ɾaβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,690 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “traban” en español
Rare enough to double-check
traban is uncommon Spanish at frequency #70,690 among 3,005 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈt̪ɾaβ̞ãn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de trabar.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for traban, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is traban, spelled T-R-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de trabar.
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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