cacahuate
[kakaˈ(ɣ̞)w̝at̪e]
The verdict
“cacahuate” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #51,430 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,430
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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...
Corpus desk
Index ES-cacahuate · cacahuate · Spanish
cacahuate · rank #51,430 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,430
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH caballeroso
Nearest frequency peer: caballeroso (-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 “cacahuate”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- buscate
buscate
48,575 corpus weight
- butterfly
butterfly
48,573 corpus weight
- caballeroso
caballeroso
48,572 corpus weight
- cacahuate
cacahuate
48,571 corpus weight
- cansarse
cansarse
48,568 corpus weight
- cantadas
cantadas
48,567 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cacahuate” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cola larga: rango de “cacahuate” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cacahuate is uncommon Spanish at frequency #51,430 among 8,288 “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.
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); 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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