cantus
[ˈkan.tʊs]
The verdict
“cantus” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #92,775 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,775
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participio perfecto pasivo de canō.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cantus · cantus · Spanish
cantus · rank #92,775 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,775
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH capacitará
Nearest frequency peer: capacitará (+2 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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “cantus”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- caminará
caminará
7,231 corpus weight
- cantus
cantus
7,226 corpus weight
- capacitará
capacitará
7,224 corpus weight
- capturamos
capturamos
7,223 corpus weight
- capturo
capturo
7,222 corpus weight
- caracteriza…
caracterizarse
7,219 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cantus” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cantus |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈkan.tʊs] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #92,775 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cantus” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cantus is uncommon Spanish at frequency #92,775 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈkan.tʊs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participio perfecto pasivo de canō.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cantus in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is cantus, spelled C-A-N-T-U-S.
Definition
- 1Participio perfecto pasivo de canō.
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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