caño
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,544
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
caño is aSpanishnoun. It means: Tubo de metal, vidrio o barro, a modo de cañuto. Pronounced [ˈkaɲo]. Often confused with co and con.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caño |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkaɲo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #12,544 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for caño is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkaɲo]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,544 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for caño, with forms such as "acño", "caoñ", and "ccaño". 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, "co", "con", "cap", 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 caño, spelled C-A-Ñ-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tubo de metal, vidrio o barro, a modo de cañuto.
- 2Elemento cilíndrico longitudinal utilizado para transportar agua u otros fluidos.
- 3Cigarrillo de marihuana.
- 4Cauce que comunica dos ríos, o bien puede ser un río con uno o dos brazos de río. En época de sequía el caño puede perder sus aguas.
- 5Técnica utilizada en el fútbol y otros deportes de balón, en el que un jugador hace pasar el balón por entre las piernas del oponente y seguir en dominio del mismo.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acño,caoñ,ccaño,cñao
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for caño
Misspelling Variants of "caño"
Frequency rank: #12,544 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: