carabela

/[kaɾaˈβ̞ela]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#70,064

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

carabela is aSpanishnoun. It means: Antiguo buque ligero de uno a tres mástiles de vela latina y hasta 160 toneladas de desplazamiento, desarrollado por los portugueses en el siglo XV, que facilitó la navegación marina por su superio... Pronounced [kaɾaˈβ̞ela].

Key facts for carabela
PropertyValue
Headwordcarabela
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[kaɾaˈβ̞ela]
Letters8
Frequency rank#70,064
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of carabela in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for carabela is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaɾaˈβ̞ela]. Corpus data places it at rank #70,064 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for carabela in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 carabela, spelled C-A-R-A-B-E-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Antiguo buque ligero de uno a tres mástiles de vela latina y hasta 160 toneladas de desplazamiento, desarrollado por los portugueses en el siglo XV, que facilitó la navegación marina por su superior maniobrabilidad y estabilidad.
  2. 2
    Pequeño barco de pesca de la costa europea en cuyo diseño se basó la carabela₁
  3. 3
    Antigua fragata de guerra turca
  4. 4
    Cesta que se lleva sobre la cabeza para transportar comestibles
  5. 5
    Por extensión, contenido de una carabela₄
  6. 6
    (Physalia physalis) Hidrozoo sifonóforo formado por una colonia de cuatro clases de pólipos, que forman un cuerpo compuesto de un pneumatóforo gelatinosa y largos tentáculos urticantes de hasta 30 m de largo, cuya picadura es muy dolorosa y hasta mortal.

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Frequency rank: #70,064 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "carabela"?
"carabela" is spelled C-A-R-A-B-E-L-A. The IPA pronunciation is [kaɾaˈβ̞ela].
What does "carabela" mean?
As a noun, "carabela" means: Antiguo buque ligero de uno a tres mástiles de vela latina y hasta 160 toneladas de desplazamiento, desarrollado por los portugueses en el siglo XV, que facilitó la navegación marina por su superio...
How do you pronounce "carabela"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "carabela" is [kaɾaˈβ̞ela]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "carabela" come from?
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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.