cachalote
[kat͡ʃaˈlot̪e]
The verdict
“cachalote” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #96,062 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,062
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Physeter macrocephalus) Mamífero marino del orden de los cetáceos (Cetacea), que posee el cerebro más grande que cualquier otro animal existente.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cachalote · cachalote · Spanish
cachalote · rank #96,062 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,062
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cabizbajo
Nearest frequency peer: cabizbajo (-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 “cachalote”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- caballeresca
caballeresca
3,941 corpus weight
- cabizbajo
cabizbajo
3,940 corpus weight
- cachalote
cachalote
3,939 corpus weight
- cachemir
cachemir
3,938 corpus weight
- cacofonía
cacofonía
3,937 corpus weight
- calabacines
calabacines
3,936 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cachalote” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cola larga: rango de “cachalote” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cachalote is uncommon Spanish at frequency #96,062 among 8,288 “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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