cancela
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,779
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cancela is aSpanishnoun. It means: Verjilla que se pone en el umbral de algunas casas para reservar el portal o zaguán del libre acceso del público. Pronounced [kãnˈsela]. Often confused with cárcel and cáncer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cancela |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kãnˈsela] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,779 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cancela is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kãnˈsela]. Corpus data places it at rank #16,779 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for cancela, with forms such as "acncela", "cacnela", and "canccela". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cárcel", "cáncer", "cancha", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 cancela, spelled C-A-N-C-E-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Verjilla que se pone en el umbral de algunas casas para reservar el portal o zaguán del libre acceso del público.
- 2Pretil de poca altura o recinto que limitaba el coro y el santuario de las antiguas iglesias.
- 3Verja, comúnmente de hierro y muy labrada, que en muchas casas de Andalucía sustituye a la puerta que divide el portal y el patio, a fin de que las macetas y otros adornos se vean desde la calle.
- 4En los cercados rurales, puerta o entrada dispuesta de diversos modos, por donde solo puede pasar un hombre a caballo.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acncela,cacnela,canccela,canceal,cancella,canclea,canecla,canncela,cansela,ccancela,cnacela
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cancela
Misspelling Variants of "cancela"
Frequency rank: #16,779 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: