caduco
[kaˈð̞uko]
The verdict
“caduco” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #47,617. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,617
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Decrépito, muy anciano.
Corpus desk
Index ES-caduco · caduco · Spanish
caduco · rank #47,617 · 8 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,617
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cachete
Nearest frequency peer: cachete (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “caduco”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- BSO
BSO
52,389 corpus weight
- budget
budget
52,388 corpus weight
- cachete
cachete
52,385 corpus weight
- caduco
caduco
52,384 corpus weight
- cagones
cagones
52,383 corpus weight
- cajeta
cajeta
52,381 corpus weight
What this shows “caduco” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caduco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [kaˈð̞uko] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #47,617 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “caduco”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around caduco (IPA [kaˈð̞uko]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #47,617 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for caduco, with forms such as "acduco", "cadcuo", and "cadduco". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "cuco", "casco", "Cauca", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is caduco, spelled C-A-D-U-C-O.
Definition
- 1Decrépito, muy anciano.
- 2Perecedero, poco durable.
- 3Demodé, de estilo anticuado u obsoleto.
- 4Dicho especialmente de las hojas que conforman un organismo vegetal: Destinada a desprenderse con el paso del tiempo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how caduco appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«Pero para comprender las religiones del mundo en su variedad y complejidad es necesario no renunciar a religiones que se explican a sí mismas desde las brumas de lo caduco, que han agonizado y que nos interpelan sin pedirnos ya creer en ellas a través de textos muertos y de imágenes sin la vida que les proporciona el culto».
«Las plantas y animales cuyo hábitat es un bosque caduco son muy sensibles, como se ha señalado, a la temperatura, la precipitación pluvial y al nivel de humedad en el ecosistema; (...)».
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acduco
- cadcuo
- cadduco
- caducco
- caduoc
- caudco
- ccaduco
- cdauco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caduco - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).