came
/keɪm/
The verdict
“came” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #33,003. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,003
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se utiliza para indicar que el siguiente suceso, período o cambio de estado ocurrió en el pasado, después de un tiempo de espera, perduración o anticipación.
Corpus desk
Index ES-came · came · Spanish
came · rank #33,003 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,003
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH Calleja
Nearest frequency peer: Calleja (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “came”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- bultos
bultos
67,003 corpus weight
- Calleja
Calleja
66,999 corpus weight
- came
came
66,998 corpus weight
- carcasa
carcasa
66,997 corpus weight
- Carmela
Carmela
66,995 corpus weight
- Carretero
Carretero
66,994 corpus weight
What this shows “came” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | came |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | /keɪm/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #33,003 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “came”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around came (IPA /keɪm/), apreposition. Corpus frequency is #33,003 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Se utiliza para indicar que el siguiente suceso, período o cambio de estado ocurrió en el pasado, después de un tiempo de espera, perduración o anticipación.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for came, with forms such as "acme", "caem", and "camme". 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", "com", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is came, spelled C-A-M-E.
Definition
- 1Se utiliza para indicar que el siguiente suceso, período o cambio de estado ocurrió en el pasado, después de un tiempo de espera, perduración o anticipación.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how came appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Came Christmas by which, at the outset, everybody knew it would be over, and it was not over. Came June, 1915, concerning which, at the outset, he had joined with Mr. Fortune, Twyning and Harold in laughter at his own grotesque idea of the war lasting to the dramatic effect of a culminating battle on the centenary of Waterloo.( 1921, Arthur Stuart-Menteth…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acme
- caem
- camme
- ccame
- cmae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of came - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).