cas
[ˈkas]
The verdict
“cas” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,656) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,656
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caso.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cas · cas · Spanish
cas · rank #19,656 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,656
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cartucho
Nearest frequency peer: cartucho (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “cas”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Carmelo
Carmelo
80,348 corpus weight
- carnicería
carnicería
80,347 corpus weight
- cartucho
cartucho
80,346 corpus weight
- cas
cas
80,345 corpus weight
- cata
cata
80,343 corpus weight
- Cepeda
Cepeda
80,342 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “cas” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | cas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkas] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,656 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “cas”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cas is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CC", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈkas]. Frequency #19,656 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Caso.".
cas doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is cas, spelled C-A-S.
Definition
- 1Caso.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).