cacahuete
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#44,018
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
cacahuete is aSpanishnoun. It means: (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... Pronounced [kakaˈ(ɣ̞)w̝et̪e]. Often confused with cachete and cacahuetes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cacahuete |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kakaˈ(ɣ̞)w̝et̪e] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #44,018 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cacahuete is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kakaˈ(ɣ̞)w̝et̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #44,018 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for cacahuete, with forms such as "accahuete", "caachuete", and "cacaheute". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "cachete", "cacahuetes", 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 cacahuete, spelled C-A-C-A-H-U-E-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
- 2Fruto comestible de la planta del cacahuete₁, que se encuentra enterrado en vainas bajo tierra.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: accahuete,caachuete,cacaheute,cacahhuete,cacahueet,cacahuette,cacahutee,cacauhete,caccahuete,cachauete,ccaahuete,ccacahuete
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "cacahuete"
Frequency rank: #44,018 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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