caballería
[kaβ̞aʝeˈɾia]
The verdict
“caballería” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #7,958. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,958
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 77,812
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Animal sobre el que se puede montar.
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 | caballería |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaβ̞aʝeˈɾia] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #7,958 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “caballería” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around caballería (IPA [kaβ̞aʝeˈɾia]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,958 among 77,812 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for caballería, with forms such as "acballería", "caabllería", and "cabalelría". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "caballero", "cabellera", "caballeros", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is caballería, spelled C-A-B-A-L-L-E-R-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Animal sobre el que se puede montar.
- 2Unidad militar que combate montada, antiguamente a caballo; actualmente en carros acorazados y otras diversas unidades mecanizadas.
- 3El cuerpo militar formado por todas las unidades de caballería₂.
- 4Cada una de las antiguas órdenes militares que existían en Europa. Actualmente siguen existiendo, aunque no con ese propósito militar.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acballería
- caabllería
- cabalelría
- cabalería
- caballeraí
- caballerría
- caballeíra
- caballreía
- cabballería
- cablalería
- cavallería
- cbaallería
- ccaballería
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caballería - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “caballería”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-B-A-L-L-E-R-Í-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kaβ̞aʝeˈɾia] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “caballero” - see the side-by-side comparison. caballería vs caballero
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Same frequency band
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.