cabe
Spanish, preposition
cabe is spelled C-A-B-E (4 letters) and appears 43 times per million words in written Spanish, the 2,020th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cabe is a Spanish preposition meaning “alongside, beside, next to” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of caber. With an accent, cabé is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of caber”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Indica que la ubicación es al lado, al borde”.
What does cabe mean in English?
preposition
- 1
archaicalongside, beside, next to
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of caber
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción de atravesar la pierna en el camino de otro para hacerlo caer. 2. Provisiones adquiridas de ocasión, en condiciones ventajosas. 3. Perjuicio.
preposition: 1. Indica que la ubicación es al lado, al borde.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cabe
- cabes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to cabe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cabe in Spanish?
cabe appears 43 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).