cabrestante
[kaβ̞ɾesˈt̪ãn̪t̪e]
The verdict
“cabrestante” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rodillo con un cable o una cuerda que sirve para arrastrar o desplazar objetos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cabrestante · cabrestante · Spanish
cabrestante · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cabrestante |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaβ̞ɾesˈt̪ãn̪t̪e] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cabrestante” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cabrestante is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [kaβ̞ɾesˈt̪ãn̪t̪e]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cabrestante, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is cabrestante, spelled C-A-B-R-E-S-T-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Rodillo con un cable o una cuerda que sirve para arrastrar o desplazar objetos.
- 2Máquina compuesta de una armazón fuerte y sólida de madera, en parte cilíndrica y en parte cónica, que gira sobre un eje vertical por medio de las barras o palancas aplicadas a su circunferencia en uno o más planos horizontales, y sirve para hacer grandes esfuerzos, envolviendo en el cuerpo de ella y con su giro el calabrote que actúa en aquellos.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.