cab
[ˈkaβ̞]
The verdict
“cab” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,464) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,464
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Carruaje ligero de dos o cuatro caballos, con una capota plegable que se recogía a modo de fuelle detrás del asiento trasero.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cab · cab · Spanish
cab · rank #33,464 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,464
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cabreado
Nearest frequency peer: cabreado (+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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “cab”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- burra
burra
66,540 corpus weight
- Burundi
Burundi
66,539 corpus weight
- cab
cab
66,537 corpus weight
- cabreado
cabreado
66,536 corpus weight
- cachetada
cachetada
66,535 corpus weight
- calentito
calentito
66,534 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “cab” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | cab |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkaβ̞] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #33,464 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “cab”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cab is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CC", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈkaβ̞]. Frequency #33,464 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Carruaje ligero de dos o cuatro caballos, con una capota plegable que se recogía a modo de fuelle detrás del asiento trasero.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cab in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "CC", "CD", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is cab, spelled C-A-B.
Definition
- 1Carruaje ligero de dos o cuatro caballos, con una capota plegable que se recogía a modo de fuelle detrás del asiento trasero.
Synonyms
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 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).