caballa
[kaˈβ̞aʝa]
The verdict
“caballa” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #61,379 among 77,812 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,379
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 77,812
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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.
| 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) |
Where “caballa” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
caballa is uncommon Spanish at frequency #61,379 among 77,812 “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.
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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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Using “caballa”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-B-A-L-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.