caballo
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,330
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
caballo is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Equus caballus) Mamífero doméstico ungulado de la familia de los équidos, utilizado por el hombre para montar o como animal de tiro. Pronounced [kaˈβ̞aʝo]. It ranks #2,330 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with calló and cabello.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caballo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈβ̞aʝo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,330 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for caballo is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈβ̞aʝo]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,330 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for caballo, with forms such as "acballo", "caabllo", and "cabalo". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "calló", "cabello", "cabildo", and more, 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 caballo, spelled C-A-B-A-L-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Equus caballus) Mamífero doméstico ungulado de la familia de los équidos, utilizado por el hombre para montar o como animal de tiro.
- 2En particular, macho castrado de esta especie.
- 3(♘, ♞) Trebejo o ficha del ajedrez, tradicionalmente representada con la forma de la cabeza y cuello del caballo₁.
- 4Naipe de la baraja española, marcado con el número once, que representa un hombre armado montando un caballo₁.
- 5Aparato gimnástico, consistente en un cuerpo oblongo apoyado en patas sobre el que el gimnasta ha de saltar.
- 6Prueba gimnástica realizada con este aparato.
- 7Armazón para elevar un madero que se ha de aserrar.
- 8Armazón triangular sobre el que se apoyan las guías del tejado.
- 9Inflamación dolorosa de un nódulo linfático causada por una infección, especialmente la plaga o la sífilis.
- 10Bloque de mineral sin valor que interrumpe un filón.
- 11Figuradamente, persona torpe y violenta.
- 12Figuradamente, persona muy fuerte y resistente.
- 13Alcaloide estupefaciente y muy adictivo que se elabora a partir del opio, antiguamente usado como anestésico y hoy popular como droga recreativa.
- 14Figuradamente, persona de mucho arrojo o capacidad.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acballo,caabllo,cabalo,cabalol,cabballo,cablalo,cbaallo,ccaballo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for caballo
Misspelling Variants of "caballo"
Frequency rank: #2,330 in Spanish
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