caballa
[kaˈβ̞aʝa]
The verdict
“caballa” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #61,379 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,379
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cualquiera de varias especies de peces azules de la familia Scombridae, de cuerpo longilíneo y cilíndrico, con vetas oscuras verticales en el lomo, capturadas para su uso en alimentación.
Corpus desk
Index ES-caballa · caballa · Spanish
caballa · rank #61,379 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,379
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH Cabanillas
Nearest frequency peer: Cabanillas (+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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “caballa”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- brunch
brunch
38,627 corpus weight
- buscarían
buscarían
38,625 corpus weight
- caballa
caballa
38,622 corpus weight
- Cabanillas
Cabanillas
38,621 corpus weight
- caducas
caducas
38,620 corpus weight
- camuflada
camuflada
38,618 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “caballa” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caballa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈβ̞aʝa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,379 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “caballa” en español
Rare enough to double-check
caballa is uncommon Spanish at frequency #61,379 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kaˈβ̞aʝa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cualquiera de varias especies de peces azules de la familia Scombridae, de cuerpo longilíneo y cilíndrico, con vetas oscuras verticales en el lomo, capturadas para su uso en alimentación.".
caballa doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is caballa, spelled C-A-B-A-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Cualquiera de varias especies de peces azules de la familia Scombridae, de cuerpo longilíneo y cilíndrico, con vetas oscuras verticales en el lomo, capturadas para su uso en alimentación.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how caballa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Los delfines, la ballena y la caballa. Delfines y ballenas libraban entre sí una batalla. Como la lucha se prolongaba con encarnizamiento, una caballa (que es un pez pequeño) salió a la superficie y quiso reconciliarlos. Pero un delfín tomó la palabra y dijo: «Nos humilla menos combatirnos y morir los unos por los otros, que tenerte a ti por mediador.» Ha…
Synonyms
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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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