carabela
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].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carabela |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaɾaˈβ̞ela] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,064 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Antiguo 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.
- 2Pequeño barco de pesca de la costa europea en cuyo diseño se basó la carabela₁
- 3Antigua fragata de guerra turca
- 4Cesta que se lleva sobre la cabeza para transportar comestibles
- 5Por extensión, contenido de una carabela₄
- 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
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