cabello
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,440
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
cabello is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cada uno de los pelos que crecen en la cabeza. Pronounced [kaˈβ̞eʝo]. It ranks #2,440 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with calló and cuello.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cabello |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈβ̞eʝo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,440 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cabello is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈβ̞eʝo]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,440 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for cabello, with forms such as "acbello", "cabbello", and "cabelo". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "calló", "cuello", "canelo", 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 cabello, spelled C-A-B-E-L-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cada uno de los pelos que crecen en la cabeza.
- 2Por extensión, conjunto de pelos de la cabeza.
- 3Fibra o barba de la mazorca de maíz.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acbello,cabbello,cabelo,cabelol,cablelo,caebllo,cavello,cbaello,ccabello
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cabello
Misspelling Variants of "cabello"
Frequency rank: #2,440 in Spanish
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