cachalote
[kat͡ʃaˈlot̪e]
The verdict
“cachalote” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #96,062 among 77,812 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,062
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 77,812
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Physeter macrocephalus) Mamífero marino del orden de los cetáceos (Cetacea), que posee el cerebro más grande que cualquier otro animal existente.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cachalote |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kat͡ʃaˈlot̪e] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #96,062 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cachalote” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cachalote is uncommon Spanish at frequency #96,062 among 77,812 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kat͡ʃaˈlot̪e]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Physeter macrocephalus) Mamífero marino del orden de los cetáceos (Cetacea), que posee el cerebro más grande que cualquier otro animal existente.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cachalote, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is cachalote, spelled C-A-C-H-A-L-O-T-E.
Definition
- 1(Physeter macrocephalus) Mamífero marino del orden de los cetáceos (Cetacea), que posee el cerebro más grande que cualquier otro animal existente.
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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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Using “cachalote”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-C-H-A-L-O-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kat͡ʃaˈlot̪e] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.