cabestrillo
[kaβ̞esˈt̪ɾiʝo]
The verdict
“cabestrillo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #98,178 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,178
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Banda o aparato pendiente del hombro para sostener e inmovilizar el brazo fracturado.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cabestrillo · cabestrillo · Spanish
cabestrillo · rank #98,178 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,178
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH Cabia
Nearest frequency peer: Cabia (+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 “cabestrillo”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- burgaleses
burgaleses
1,828 corpus weight
- Bérgamo
Bérgamo
1,825 corpus weight
- cabestrillo
cabestrillo
1,823 corpus weight
- Cabia
Cabia
1,822 corpus weight
- calificamos
calificamos
1,817 corpus weight
- callará
callará
1,816 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cabestrillo” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cabestrillo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaβ̞esˈt̪ɾiʝo] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #98,178 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cabestrillo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cabestrillo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #98,178 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kaβ̞esˈt̪ɾiʝo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
cabestrillo has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is cabestrillo, spelled C-A-B-E-S-T-R-I-L-L-O.
Definition
- 1Banda o aparato pendiente del hombro para sostener e inmovilizar el brazo fracturado.
- 2Cadena delgada de oro, plata o aljófar, que se traía al cuello por adorno.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).