caer
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,628
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
3
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
caer is aSpanishverb. It means: Moverse de arriba hacia abajo por efecto de la fuerza de gravedad. Pronounced [kaˈeɾ]. It ranks #1,628 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with ce and che.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caer |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kaˈeɾ] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,628 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for caer is 4 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈeɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,628 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 22 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 3 documented wrong-spelling variants for caer, with forms such as "caerr", "ccaer", and "cear". 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, "ce", "che", "can", 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 caer, spelled C-A-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Moverse de arriba hacia abajo por efecto de la fuerza de gravedad.
- 2Ir al suelo por haber perdido el equilibrio.
- 3Descender ligeramente por efecto del propio peso.
- 4Liberarse o soltarse una cosa de donde estaba sujeta.
- 5Arrojarse a los pies de alguien en un gesto de sumisión para conseguir un favor o perdón.
- 6Arrojarse de pronto sobre el enemigo.
- 7Ir en determinada categoría.
- 8Recibir algo inesperadamente o al azar.
- 9Recibir a alguien inesperadamente, generalmente con poco agrado.
- 10Meterse alguien inesperadamente en una mala situación.
- 11Perder vitalidad, fuerza o poder.
- 12Disminuir en cantidad o valor.
- 13Llegar a su fin y desaparecer.
- 14Alcanzar a entender.
- 15Ser vencido.
- 16Perder la vida.
- 17Tener una ubicación espacial.
- 18Tener una ubicación temporal.
- 19Llegar a una cita o reunión donde se le espera.
- 20Disminuir el colorido de una prenda o de un objeto.
- 21Poder ocurrir, estar dentro de lo posible.
- 22Dicho de una persona: Dar su consentimiento para tener una relación amorosa o sexual.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: caerr,ccaer,cear
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for caer
Misspelling Variants of "caer"
Frequency rank: #1,628 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: