cabecear
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#70,858
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
cabecear is aSpanishverb. It means: Mover la cabeza, inclinándola con frecuencia adelante, atrás o a los lados. Pronounced [kaβ̞eseˈaɾ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cabecear |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kaβ̞eseˈaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,858 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cabecear is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaβ̞eseˈaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #70,858 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cabecear in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 cabecear, spelled C-A-B-E-C-E-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mover la cabeza, inclinándola con frecuencia adelante, atrás o a los lados.
- 2Mover la cabeza a los lados significando que no se asiente a lo que se pide o se oye.
- 3Dar cabezadas, inclinando la cabeza hacia el pecho cuando se duerme una persona que está sentada.
- 4Mover los caballos la cabeza con frecuencia de arriba abajo.
- 5Moverse el buque, alzando y bajando alternativamente la popa y la proa.
- 6Moverse demasiado hacia delante y hacia atrás la caja de un carruaje.
- 7Inclinarse a una parte más que a otra una cosa que balancea y que debe estar en equilibrio.
- 8Dar a la pelota con la cabeza.
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Frequency rank: #70,858 in Spanish
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