cabecera
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,619
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
cabecera is aSpanishnoun. It means: Principio o parte principal de algunas cosas. Pronounced [kaβ̞eˈseɾa]. It ranks #8,619 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Cabrera and crecerá.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cabecera |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaβ̞eˈseɾa] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cabecera is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaβ̞eˈseɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,619 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 18 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for cabecera, with forms such as "acbecera", "cabbecera", and "cabceera". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Cabrera", "crecerá", "carecer", 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 cabecera, spelled C-A-B-E-C-E-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Principio o parte principal de algunas cosas.
- 2Parte superior o principal de un sitio en que se juntan varias personas, y en la cual se sientan las más dignas y autorizadas.
- 3Parte de la cama donde se ponen las almohadas.
- 4Tabla o barandilla que se suele poner en la cama para que no se caigan las almohadas.
- 5Principal y más honorífico asiento de la mesa.
- 6Origen de un río.
- 7Capital o población principal de un territorio o distrito.
- 8Adorno que se pone a la cabeza de una página, capítulo o parte de un impreso.
- 9Cada uno de los dos extremos del lomo de un libro.
- 10Cada uno de los dos extremos de una tierra de labor, adonde no puede llegar el surco que abre el arado.
- 11Almohada o faceruelo.
- 12Cabeza o principio de un escrito.
- 13Nombre de un periódico que suele ir en la parte superior de la primera página.
- 14Albacea o testamentario.
- 15Oficio de albacea.
- 16Jefe de una cuadrilla de barreneros.
- 17Cabeza, jefe de familia.
- 18Capitán o cabeza de un ejército, provincia o pueblo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acbecera,cabbecera,cabceera,cabeccera,cabecear,cabecerra,cabecrea,cabeecra,cabesera,caebcera,cavecera,cbaecera,ccabecera
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cabecera
Misspelling Variants of "cabecera"
Frequency rank: #8,619 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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