caballería

[kaβ̞aʝeˈɾia]

/[kaβ̞aʝeˈɾia]/ noun

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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
8,288
“C” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Animal sobre el que se puede montar.

Corpus desk

Index ES-caballeria · caballería · Spanish

caballería · rank #7,958 · 13 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,958
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,288
  • PHOTO-FINISH camisetas

Nearest frequency peer: camisetas (+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.

Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “caballería”

Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino

corpus weight

What this shows “caballería” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

caballería vs caballero
80% similar
caballería vs cabellera
80% similar
caballería vs caballeros
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for caballería
PropertyValue
Headwordcaballería
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[kaβ̞aʝeˈɾia]
Letters10
Frequency rank#7,958
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “caballería”

Esta escala corre desde el núcleo del español cotidiano (izquierda) hasta el rastro de formas rara vez usadas (derecha).caballeríacae aquí:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

La escala es logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× más rara). En la misma franja de rareza aparecen “camisetas” (#7,959), “brigada” (#7,956), “campana” (#7,960). Entre 8,288 lemas con “C”, “caballería” va en #7,958. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around caballería (IPA [kaβ̞aʝeˈɾia]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,958 among 8,288 “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

  1. 1
    Animal sobre el que se puede montar.
  2. 2
    Unidad militar que combate montada, antiguamente a caballo; actualmente en carros acorazados y otras diversas unidades mecanizadas.
  3. 3
    El cuerpo militar formado por todas las unidades de caballería₂.
  4. 4
    Cada una de las antiguas órdenes militares que existían en Europa. Actualmente siguen existiendo, aunque no con ese propósito militar.

Synonyms

monturaorden de caballería

This word in other languages

cavalry(English)cavalerie(Français)

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.

acballería2caabllería2cabalelría2cabalería1caballeraí2caballerría1caballeíra2caballreía2
Edit distance from "caballería"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "caballería"?
"caballería" is spelled C-A-B-A-L-L-E-R-Í-A. The IPA pronunciation is [kaβ̞aʝeˈɾia].
What does "caballería" mean?
As a noun, "caballería" means: Animal sobre el que se puede montar.
What words are commonly confused with "caballería"?
"caballería" is commonly confused with "caballero", "cabellera", "caballeros". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "caballería"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "caballería" is [kaβ̞aʝeˈɾia]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "caballería" come from?
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "caballería", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list