cabeceo
[kaβ̞eˈseo]
The verdict
“cabeceo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #71,675 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,675
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Movimiento de la cabeza.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cabeceo · cabeceo · Spanish
cabeceo · rank #71,675 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,675
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cabinet
Nearest frequency peer: cabinet (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “cabeceo”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- boyfriend
boyfriend
28,334 corpus weight
- burlesco
burlesco
28,330 corpus weight
- cabeceo
cabeceo
28,326 corpus weight
- cabinet
cabinet
28,325 corpus weight
- cabían
cabían
28,324 corpus weight
- cacas
cacas
28,323 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cabeceo” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cola larga: rango de “cabeceo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cabeceo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #71,675 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kaβ̞eˈseo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cabeceo, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is cabeceo, spelled C-A-B-E-C-E-O.
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
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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