caoba
[kaˈoβ̞a]
The verdict
“caoba” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #36,450. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,450
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (género Swietenia) Árbol de la familia Meliaceae, natural de América, de hasta 20 metros de altura, tronco corpulento y recto del que brotan a cierta altura un gran número de ramas, hojas compuesta...
Corpus desk
Index ES-caoba · caoba · Spanish
caoba · rank #36,450 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,450
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cansadas
Nearest frequency peer: cansadas (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “caoba”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- calzón
calzón
63,555 corpus weight
- candados
candados
63,554 corpus weight
- cansadas
cansadas
63,553 corpus weight
- caoba
caoba
63,551 corpus weight
- carátula
carátula
63,549 corpus weight
- cazan
cazan
63,548 corpus weight
What this shows “caoba” 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 | caoba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈoβ̞a] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #36,450 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “caoba”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around caoba (IPA [kaˈoβ̞a]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,450 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for caoba, with forms such as "acoba", "caboa", and "caoab". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "coa", "casa", "cosa", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is caoba, spelled C-A-O-B-A.
Definition
- 1(género Swietenia) Árbol de la familia Meliaceae, natural de América, de hasta 20 metros de altura, tronco corpulento y recto del que brotan a cierta altura un gran número de ramas, hojas compuestas, flores pequeñas y blancas, y fruto capsular. Su madera es muy estimada.
- 2Madera noble de este árbol.
- 3Color rojizo, como el de la madera de caoba.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acoba
- caboa
- caoab
- caobba
- caova
- ccaoba
- coaba
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caoba - 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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).