cabaña
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,179
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cabaña is aSpanishnoun. It means: Casilla tosca, hecha en el campo, generalmente de palos entretejidos con cañas y cubierta de ramas, de paja o de hierbas, para refugio o habitación de pastores, pescadores y gente humilde. Pronounced [kaˈβ̞aɲa]. Often confused with caña and Cabra.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cabaña |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈβ̞aɲa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cabaña is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈβ̞aɲa]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,179 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 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 cabaña, with forms such as "acbaña", "caabña", and "cabaañ". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "caña", "Cabra", "cagan", 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 cabaña, spelled C-A-B-A-Ñ-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Casilla tosca, hecha en el campo, generalmente de palos entretejidos con cañas y cubierta de ramas, de paja o de hierbas, para refugio o habitación de pastores, pescadores y gente humilde.
- 2Número considerable de cabezas de ganado.
- 3Recua de caballerías que se emplea en portear granos.
- 4En el juego de billar, espacio dividido por una raya a la cabecera de la mesa, desde el cual juega quien tiene bola en mano.
- 5Cuadro en que hay pintadas cabañas₁ de pastores con aves y animales domésticos.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acbaña,caabña,cabaañ,cabbaña,cabñaa,cavaña,cbaaña,ccabaña
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cabaña
Misspelling Variants of "cabaña"
Frequency rank: #11,179 in Spanish
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