cascada
[kasˈkað̞a]
The verdict
“cascada” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #15,036. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,036
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Accidente geográfico formado por la caída de un curso de agua desde un acantilado o desnivel brusco del terreno.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cascada · cascada · Spanish
cascada · rank #15,036 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,036
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cargados
Nearest frequency peer: cargados (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “cascada”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- cantado
cantado
84,968 corpus weight
- cargados
cargados
84,966 corpus weight
- cascada
cascada
84,965 corpus weight
- casting
casting
84,964 corpus weight
- cauce
cauce
84,963 corpus weight
- causaron
causaron
84,962 corpus weight
What this shows “cascada” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | cascada |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kasˈkað̞a] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,036 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “cascada”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around cascada (IPA [kasˈkað̞a]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,036 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for cascada, with forms such as "acscada", "cacsada", and "casacda". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "causada", "cáscara", "castaña", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is cascada, spelled C-A-S-C-A-D-A.
Definition
- 1Accidente geográfico formado por la caída de un curso de agua desde un acantilado o desnivel brusco del terreno.
- 2Por extensión, serie de hechos o acontecimientos que se suceden sin interrupción y en abundancia.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acscada
- cacsada
- casacda
- cascaad
- cascadda
- casccada
- cascdaa
- casscada
- ccascada
- csacada
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cascada - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cascada", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).