caganer
The verdict
“caganer” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 7
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Figura de una persona defecando que se suele colocar en los belenes, como tradición en Cataluña y en la Comunidad Valenciana.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caganer |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kə.ɣəˈne] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “caganer” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for caganer is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kə.ɣəˈne]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Figura de una persona defecando que se suele colocar en los belenes, como tradición en Cataluña y en la Comunidad Valenciana.".
No misspelling variants are generated for caganer in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 caganer, spelled C-A-G-A-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Figura de una persona defecando que se suele colocar en los belenes, como tradición en Cataluña y en la Comunidad Valenciana.
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Using “caganer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-G-A-N-E-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kə.ɣəˈne] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Nearby Spanish words
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