cadena
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,539
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cadena is aSpanishnoun. It means: Serie de objetos entrelazados uno después de otro, especialmente eslabones metálicos. Pronounced [kaˈð̞ena]. It ranks #1,539 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with cena and Caen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cadena |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈð̞ena] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,539 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cadena is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈð̞ena]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,539 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 18 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for cadena, with forms such as "acdena", "caddena", and "cadean". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cena", "Caen", "caña", and more, 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 cadena, spelled C-A-D-E-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Serie de objetos entrelazados uno después de otro, especialmente eslabones metálicos.
- 2Objeto circular formado por eslabones entrelazados.
- 3Sucesión de hechos o fenómenos relacionados entre sí.
- 4Grupo de personas tomadas de las manos.
- 5Lazo inmaterial que une a las personas.
- 6Atadura o fuerza que oprime. :*Sinónimo: opresión
- 7conjunto de máquinas e instalaciones que hacen pasar el trabajo de una a otra.
- 8Conjunto de empresas del mismo rubro que tienen un mismo propietario.
- 9Emisión radial o televisiva conjunta de un mismo programa.
- 10Equipo musical compuesto de módulos independientes que pueden ser reunidos en un solo conjunto.
- 11Sucesión de montañas.
- 12Cierre de puertos o dársenas por medio de perchas o masteleros unidos por cadenas.
- 13Emisora de televisión.
- 14Grupo de galeotes encadenados entre sí.
- 15Átomos que unidos de forma más o menos linear o circular forman una molécula.
- 16Conjunto de elementos del mismo tipo en disposición lineal.
- 17En plural designa al conjunto de cadenas y elementos que estabilizan las ruedas de un automóvil en terreno nevado o escarchado.
- 18Pilar de cemento o sillería que refuerza los muros de ladrillos y otros.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acdena,caddena,cadean,cadenna,cadnea,caedna,ccadena,cdaena
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cadena
Misspelling Variants of "cadena"
Frequency rank: #1,539 in Spanish
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