cable
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,034
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cable is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cabo grueso, maroma. Pronounced [ˈkaβ̞le]. It ranks #3,034 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Cae and cal.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cable |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkaβ̞le] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,034 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cable is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkaβ̞le]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,034 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for cable, with forms such as "acble", "cabble", and "cabel". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Cae", "cal", "cabo", 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 cable, spelled C-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cabo grueso, maroma.
- 2Trenzado de alambres destinado a soportar fuertes tensiones (ascensor, teleférico, grúa, etcétera).
- 3Conjunto de hilos metálicos conductores recubiertos con material aislante para diversos usos: electricidad, telecomunicaciones,etc. Más concreta y técnicamente, conjunto de conductores metálicos en forma longitudinal, unidos (trenzados y/o arrollados en espiral) y aislados entre sí mediante un dieléctrico y con cubierta protectora. Algunos pueden contener conductores en otras formas como medio de protección ante perturbaciones eléctromagnéticas externas y/o internas.
- 4Ayuda para sacar a alguien de una mala situación, de un apuro.
- 5Medida de longitud equivalente a 185 metros.
- 6Cabo grueso atado a la parte superior del ancla.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acble,cabble,cabel,cablle,calbe,cavle,cbale,ccable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cable
Misspelling Variants of "cable"
Frequency rank: #3,034 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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