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
- 77,812
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Decrépito, muy anciano.
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) |
Where “caduco” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around caduco (IPA [kaˈð̞uko]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #47,617 among 77,812 “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.
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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Using “caduco”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-D-U-C-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kaˈð̞uko] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “cuco” - see the side-by-side comparison. caduco vs cuco
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Same frequency band
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.