caes
[ˈkaes]
The verdict
“caes” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,986) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,986
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Segunda persona del singular (tú) del presente de indicativo de caer o de caerse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-caes · caes · Spanish
caes · rank #12,986 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,986
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH bárbaro
Nearest frequency peer: bárbaro (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “caes”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- bond
bond
87,018 corpus weight
- boys
boys
87,017 corpus weight
- bárbaro
bárbaro
87,016 corpus weight
- caes
caes
87,015 corpus weight
- cambiamos
cambiamos
87,014 corpus weight
- caramelos
caramelos
87,012 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “caes” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | caes |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈkaes] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #12,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “caes”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for caes is neighbouring look-alikes ("ce", "che", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈkaes]. Frequency #12,986 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Segunda persona del singular (tú) del presente de indicativo de caer o de caerse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for caes, with forms such as "aces", "caess", and "ccaes". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is caes, spelled C-A-E-S.
Definition
- 1Segunda persona del singular (tú) del presente de indicativo de caer o de caerse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aces
- caess
- ccaes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caes - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).