casa
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#136
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
casa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Edificación destinada a vivienda. Pronounced [ˈkasa]. It ranks #136 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with cat and cha.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | casa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkasa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #136 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for casa is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkasa]. Corpus data places it at rank #136 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for casa, with forms such as "acsa", "caas", and "cassa". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cat", "cha", "cis", 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 casa, spelled C-A-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Edificación destinada a vivienda.
- 2Domicilio.
- 3Piso, departamento o local que, aunque no constituya una edificación entera, tiene las dependencias mínimas para que lo habite una familia, un grupo de personas o una persona sola.
- 4Cualquier tipo de alojamiento, sea obra de albañilería, choza o cabaña, que se destina a ese fin.
- 5Descendencia o linaje que tiene un mismo apellido, y viene del mismo origen.
- 6Conjunto de hijos y domésticos que componen una familia.
- 7Establecimiento comercial o cualquiera de sus sucursales.
- 8Cada una de las 12 divisiones de la esfera celeste tomando como base la línea del horizonte, y que representan un aspecto de un signo zodiacal.
- 9Estados y rentas de un señor.
- 10En el juego del ajedrez, en el de las damas y en otros, cada uno de los cuadros en que está dividido el tablero.
- 11En el juego de tablas reales, cada uno de los semicírculos cortados en la misma madera a los dos lados del tablero, en donde se van colocando las piezas para ocupar las casas según la suerte de los dados.
- 12espacio dividido por una raya a la cabecera de la mesa, desde el cual juega el que tiene bola en mano.
- 13Lugar, casería.
- 14Símbolo de hospitalidad, en heráldica, pintada de frente o de perfil.
- 15Convento.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acsa,caas,cassa,ccasa,csaa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for casa
Misspelling Variants of "casa"
Frequency rank: #136 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: