caballa

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for caballa is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈβ̞aʝa]. Corpus data places it at rank #61,379 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.".

No misspelling variants are generated for caballa in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 caballa, spelled C-A-B-A-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.