Cam
[ˈkãm]
The verdict
“Cam” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,799) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,799
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hijo de Noé.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cam · Cam · Spanish
Cam · rank #10,799 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,799
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH calmar
Nearest frequency peer: calmar (-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 “Cam”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- borrado
borrado
89,205 corpus weight
- buses
buses
89,204 corpus weight
- calmar
calmar
89,203 corpus weight
- Cam
Cam
89,202 corpus weight
- cambien
cambien
89,201 corpus weight
- camisas
camisas
89,200 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Cam” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Cam |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈkãm] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,799 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Dónde se sitúa “Cam” en la frecuencia del español
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Cam is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CC", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [ˈkãm]. Frequency #10,799 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Hijo de Noé.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Cam in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "CC", "CD", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is Cam, spelled C-A-M.
Definition
- 1Hijo de Noé.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "Cam" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "co". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #10,799 among Spanish headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.