cachan
[ˈkat͡ʃãn]
The verdict
“cachan” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #82,692 among 77,812 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,692
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 77,812
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de cachar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cachan · cachan · Spanish
cachan · rank #82,692 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,692
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 77,812
- PHOTO-FINISH caballeriza
Nearest frequency peer: caballeriza (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “cachan”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- buscase
buscase
17,311 corpus weight
- caballeriza
caballeriza
17,310 corpus weight
- cachan
cachan
17,309 corpus weight
- cafetaleros
cafetaleros
17,308 corpus weight
- cafre
cafre
17,307 corpus weight
- calandria
calandria
17,306 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “cachan” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cachan |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈkat͡ʃãn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,692 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cachan” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cachan is uncommon Spanish at frequency #82,692 among 77,812 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈkat͡ʃãn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de cachar.".
cachan doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is cachan, spelled C-A-C-H-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de cachar.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
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.