caballete
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#49,485
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
caballete is aSpanishnoun. It means: Línea horizontal y más elevada de un tejado, de la cual arrancan dos vertientes. Pronounced [kaβ̞aˈʝet̪e]. Often confused with caballito and caballero.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caballete |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaβ̞aˈʝet̪e] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #49,485 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for caballete is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaβ̞aˈʝet̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #49,485 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for caballete, with forms such as "acballete", "caabllete", and "cabalelte". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "caballito", "caballero", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 caballete, spelled C-A-B-A-L-L-E-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Línea horizontal y más elevada de un tejado, de la cual arrancan dos vertientes.
- 2Madero en que se quebranta el cáñamo o lino.
- 3Pieza de los guadarneses, que se compone de dos tablas juntas a lo largo, de modo que formen lomo, y las cuales, elevadas sobre cuatro pies, sirven para tener las sillas de montar de manera que no se maltraten los fustes.
- 4Soporte usado por los carpinteros formado por varias tablas que unidas y cruzándose en determinados puntos, sirve para apoyar las maderas que están trabajando.
- 5Armazón de madera compuesta de tres patas, con una tablita transversal donde se coloca el cuadro para ser pintado.
- 6Aparato de gimnasio con forma de cilindro dispuesto horizontalmente en el aire (mediante apoyos en el suelo) y con dos manijas hacia arriba cerca del centro, usado para demostraciones gimnásticas.
- 7Protuberancias o relieves que se dan sobre la tierra arada.
- 8Parte superior de la chimenea, cuyo diseño permite que salga el humo sin que ingrese el agua de la lluvia.
- 9Protuberancia central de la nariz.
- 10Quilla de un ave.
- 11Utensilio que se coloca en el horno a modo de trébede para evitar que las piezas que se cocinan se peguen.
- 12Pinza del cangrejo llamado barrilete.
- 13Aparato de tortura con el que se dislocaban las extermidades de la víctima.
- 14Pieza sujetada con un tornillo y usada como traba para sostener el manubrio de una prensa de mano.
- 15Bloque de mineral sin valor que interrumpe un filón.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acballete,caabllete,cabalelte,cabalete,caballeet,caballette,caballtee,cabballete,cablalete,cavallete,cbaallete,ccaballete
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for caballete
Misspelling Variants of "caballete"
Frequency rank: #49,485 in Spanish
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