cábala
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#44,676
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cábala is aSpanishnoun. It means: Tradición oral de la interpretación del Tanaj (biblia hebrea), originada en las comunidades judías de la España y Francia medievales, y luego adoptada y transformada por distintas escuelas teosóficas. Pronounced [ˈkaβ̞ala]. Often confused with cala and canal.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cábala |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkaβ̞ala] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #44,676 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cábala is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkaβ̞ala]. Corpus data places it at rank #44,676 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for cábala, with forms such as "cbáala", "ccábala", and "cáabla". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cala", "canal", "cable", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is cábala, spelled C-Á-B-A-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tradición oral de la interpretación del Tanaj (biblia hebrea), originada en las comunidades judías de la España y Francia medievales, y luego adoptada y transformada por distintas escuelas teosóficas.
- 2En particular, conjunto de prácticas místicas, esotéricas y mágicas derivadas de la misma tradición que la cábala₁.
- 3Opinión formada por la interpretación de indicios, pero sin disponer de evidencia suficiente.
- 4Negociación llevada en secreto y por beneficio propio.
- 5Por extensión, grupo que hace cábalas₄.
- 6Gesto o acción llevado a cabo por la creencia supersticiosa de que trae buena suerte.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cbáala,ccábala,cáabla,cábaal,cáballa,cábbala,cáblaa,cávala,ácbala
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "cábala"
Frequency rank: #44,676 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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