Caracas
/kəˈɹɑːkəs/
"caracas" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Caracas” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #19,777. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,777
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The capital city of Venezuela.
Corpus desk
Index EN-caracas · Caracas · English
Caracas · rank #19,777 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,777
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Cairns
Nearest frequency peer: Cairns (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Caracas”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- bumping
bumping
80,227 corpus weight
- Cairns
Cairns
80,225 corpus weight
- Caracas
Caracas
80,224 corpus weight
- Cassie
Cassie
80,223 corpus weight
- cello
cello
80,222 corpus weight
- Celsius
Celsius
80,221 corpus weight
What this shows “Caracas” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Caracas |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /kəˈɹɑːkəs/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,777 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Caracas”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Caracas (IPA /kəˈɹɑːkəs/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #19,777 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The capital city of Venezuela.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Caracas, with forms such as "acracas", "caarcas", and "caraacs". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "cracks", "caravan", "carcass", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish Caracas. Named after the Caraca tribe. The correct English form is Caracas, spelled C-A-R-A-C-A-S.
Definition
- 1The capital city of Venezuela.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Caracas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“I see a somewhat warlike atmosphere. Silence can say many things,” a driver from eastern Caracas told CNN, asking not to be identified for security reasons.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish Caracas. Named after the Caraca tribe.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acracas
- caarcas
- caraacs
- caracass
- caraccas
- caracsa
- carcaas
- carracas
- ccaracas
- craacas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Caracas - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Caracas", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).