caballo
"caballo" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“caballo” is uncommon English (frequency #94,639 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,639
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A horse.
Corpus desk
Index EN-caballo · caballo · English
caballo · rank #94,639 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,639
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Caesarian
Nearest frequency peer: Caesarian (+2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “caballo”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- brutalize
brutalize
5,369 corpus weight
- bulgur
bulgur
5,366 corpus weight
- caballo
caballo
5,362 corpus weight
- Caesarian
Caesarian
5,360 corpus weight
- Cajamarca
Cajamarca
5,357 corpus weight
- calmodulin
calmodulin
5,355 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “caballo” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caballo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #94,639 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “caballo” in English
Rare enough to double-check
caballo is uncommon English at frequency #94,639 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A horse.".
caballo has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish caballo (“horse”). The correct English form is caballo, spelled C-A-B-A-L-L-O.
Definition
- 1A horse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how caballo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The very idea of a false step of my caballo made the blood run cold.
Impatiently turning his caballo's head he started the animal at an easy one-step gait in a southerly direction.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish caballo (“horse”).
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).