caribú
[kaɾiˈβ̞u]
The verdict
“caribú” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Rangifer tarandus) Cualquiera de las subespecies de renos que habitan en Canadá.
Corpus desk
Index ES-caribu · caribú · Spanish
caribú · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caribú |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaɾiˈβ̞u] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “caribú” en español
Rare enough to double-check
caribú is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [kaɾiˈβ̞u]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Rangifer tarandus) Cualquiera de las subespecies de renos que habitan en Canadá.".
caribú doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is caribú, spelled C-A-R-I-B-Ú.
Definition
- 1(Rangifer tarandus) Cualquiera de las subespecies de renos que habitan en Canadá.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.