caja negra
The verdict
“caja negra” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 10
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Figuradamente, la caja donde se guardan dineros mal habidos o que escapan a la fiscalización.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caja negra |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈkaxa ˈneɣ̞ɾa] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “caja negra” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for caja negra is 10 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkaxa ˈneɣ̞ɾa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for caja negra 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 caja negra, spelled C-A-J-A- -N-E-G-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Figuradamente, la caja donde se guardan dineros mal habidos o que escapan a la fiscalización.
- 2El cerebro, desde el punto de vista de la sicología, situado entre un estímulo y una respuesta.
- 3En los aviones, caja de color anaranjado vistoso, que contiene las grabaciones de las mediciones de diferentes sensores. En caso de accidente, su recuperación es fundamental para esclarecerlo.
- 4Proceso en donde sólo se conoce cómo varían las respuestas (salidas) en función de los estímulos (entradas) aplicados, sin tener ningún conocimiento sobre cómo es el funcionamiento interno del mismo.
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Using “caja negra”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-J-A- -N-E-G-R-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈkaxa ˈneɣ̞ɾa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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