caías
[kaˈias]
The verdict
“caías” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #81,779 among 77,812 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,779
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 77,812
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Segunda persona del singular (tú, vos) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de caer o de caerse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-caias · caías · Spanish
caías · rank #81,779 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,779
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 77,812
- PHOTO-FINISH cavo
Nearest frequency peer: cavo (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “caías”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- carísima
carísima
18,227 corpus weight
- Castillejos
Castillejos
18,225 corpus weight
- categorizado
categorizado
18,224 corpus weight
- cavo
cavo
18,223 corpus weight
- caías
caías
18,222 corpus weight
- cedemos
cedemos
18,219 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “caías” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caías |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kaˈias] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,779 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “caías” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
caías is uncommon Spanish at frequency #81,779 among 77,812 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [kaˈias]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Segunda persona del singular (tú, vos) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de caer o de caerse.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for caías in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is caías, spelled C-A-Í-A-S.
Definition
- 1Segunda persona del singular (tú, vos) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de caer o de caerse.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.