cap
[ˈkap]
The verdict
“cap” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,113) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,113
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cabeza
Corpus desk
Index ES-cap · cap · Spanish
cap · rank #7,113 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,113
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH canciller
Nearest frequency peer: canciller (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “cap”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- calientes
calientes
92,891 corpus weight
- cancelar
cancelar
92,890 corpus weight
- canciller
canciller
92,889 corpus weight
- cap
cap
92,888 corpus weight
- carece
carece
92,887 corpus weight
- catalanes
catalanes
92,886 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “cap” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | cap |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkap] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,113 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Dónde se sitúa “cap” en la frecuencia del español
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cap is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CC", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈkap]. Frequency #7,113 among 8,288 “C” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
cap has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "CC", "CD", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is cap, spelled C-A-P.
Definition
- 1Cabeza
- 2Cabo
- 3Algún, ningún
- 4Hacia, para
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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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.