capucha
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,920
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
capucha is aSpanishnoun. It means: Gorro amplio y flexible que cubre la cabeza, el cuello y parte de la cara, generalmente integrado a una prenda de vestir. Pronounced [kaˈput͡ʃa]. Often confused with Cauca and caucho.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capucha |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈput͡ʃa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,920 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for capucha is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈput͡ʃa]. Corpus data places it at rank #20,920 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 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for capucha, with forms such as "acpucha", "capcuha", and "cappucha". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Cauca", "caucho", "chucha", 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 capucha, spelled C-A-P-U-C-H-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Gorro amplio y flexible que cubre la cabeza, el cuello y parte de la cara, generalmente integrado a una prenda de vestir.
- 2Prenda con capucha₁.
- 3Por extensión, objeto cualquiera cuya forma o función recuerda a la de una capucha₁.
- 4Por extensión, corona de plumas que caracteriza algunas especies de aves.
- 5Diacrítico en forma de cuña con el vértice hacia arriba, empleado en la ortografía de numerosos idiomas para indicar la longitud, acento o altura de algunas vocales.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acpucha,capcuha,cappucha,capucah,capuccha,capuchha,capuhca,caupcha,ccapucha,cpaucha
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for capucha
Misspelling Variants of "capucha"
Frequency rank: #20,920 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: