cabeceo
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#71,675
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
cabeceo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Movimiento de la cabeza. Pronounced [kaβ̞eˈseo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cabeceo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaβ̞eˈseo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,675 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cabeceo is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaβ̞eˈseo]. Corpus data places it at rank #71,675 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for cabeceo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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 cabeceo, spelled C-A-B-E-C-E-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Movimiento de la cabeza.
- 2Movimiento de la cabeza de quien duerme o empieza a dormirse.
- 3Acción de negar con un movimiento de cabeza.
- 4Acción de golpear la pelota con la cabeza.
- 5Inclinarse hacia un lado y luego hacia otro.
- 6Movimiento de una embarcación subiendo y bajando la proa.
- 7Rotación de un aeroplano sobre el eje transversal que pasa sobre las alas.
Synonyms
Frequency rank: #71,675 in Spanish
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