cabían
[kaˈβ̞iãn]
The verdict
“cabían” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #71,677 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,677
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de caber.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cabian · cabían · Spanish
cabían · rank #71,677 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,677
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 “cabían”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- 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
- calmaron
calmaron
28,316 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cabían” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cabían |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kaˈβ̞iãn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,677 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cabían” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cabían is uncommon Spanish at frequency #71,677 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [kaˈβ̞iãn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de caber.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cabían, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is cabían, spelled C-A-B-Í-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de caber.
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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