caca
/ˈkɑːkə/
"caca" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“caca” is uncommon English (frequency #84,059 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,059
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Excrement; feces.
Corpus desk
Index EN-caca · caca · English
caca · rank #84,059 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,059
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Byng
Nearest frequency peer: Byng (-1 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 “caca”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- burnishing
burnishing
15,946 corpus weight
- Byng
Byng
15,943 corpus weight
- caca
caca
15,942 corpus weight
- Caillou
Caillou
15,941 corpus weight
- calligrapher
calligrapher
15,940 corpus weight
- Cambrai
Cambrai
15,939 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “caca” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caca |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɑːkə/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #84,059 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “caca” in English
Rare enough to double-check
caca is uncommon English at frequency #84,059 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkɑːkə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Excrement; feces.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for caca, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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: From Middle English cakken, from Old English *cacian, from Old English cac (“dung; excrement”), of uncertain origin and relation. Cognate with English cack. Compare Latin cacō (“to defecate”), French caca (“excrement”), Basque kaka (“excrement”), Lithuanian… The correct English form is caca, spelled C-A-C-A.
Definition
- 1Excrement; feces.
Etymology
From Middle English cakken, from Old English *cacian, from Old English cac (“dung; excrement”), of uncertain origin and relation. Cognate with English cack. Compare Latin cacō (“to defecate”), French caca (“excrement”), Basque kaka (“excrement”), Lithuanian kaka (“excrement”), Hungarian kaka (“excrement”), Italian cacca, Ancient Greek κάκκη (kákkē, “dung”), German kacken, Irish cac, Welsh cach, Cornish caugh, Breton cac'h, Aromanian cac, Scottish Gaelic cac, Romanian căca, Spanish caca (“excrement”).
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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