cacahuate
[kakaˈ(ɣ̞)w̝at̪e]
The verdict
“cacahuate” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #51,430 among 77,812 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,430
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 77,812
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Arachis hypogaea) Planta anual de la familia de las fabáceas, orginaria de América. Tiene hojas pinnadas con dos pares de folíolos oblongos, y flores amarillas con un cáliz tubular, cuyo ovario se...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cacahuate |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kakaˈ(ɣ̞)w̝at̪e] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,430 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cacahuate” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cacahuate is uncommon Spanish at frequency #51,430 among 77,812 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kakaˈ(ɣ̞)w̝at̪e]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Arachis hypogaea) Planta anual de la familia de las fabáceas, orginaria de América. Tiene hojas pinnadas con dos pares de folíolos oblongos, y flores amarillas con un cáliz tubular, cuyo ovario se...".
Zero misspellings are on record for cacahuate in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 cacahuate, spelled C-A-C-A-H-U-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1(Arachis hypogaea) Planta anual de la familia de las fabáceas, orginaria de América. Tiene hojas pinnadas con dos pares de folíolos oblongos, y flores amarillas con un cáliz tubular, cuyo ovario se desplaza al ser fertilizadas hasta enterrarse en el suelo. Los frutos son vainas que crecen y maduran bajo tierra.
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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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-C-A-H-U-A-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.