caso
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#157
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
caso is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cada una de varias instancias consideradas como pertenecientes a un mismo tipo de situaciones o cosas (como los casos de una enfermedad, etc.). Pronounced [ˈkaso]. It ranks #157 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with co and cat.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caso |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkaso] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for caso is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkaso]. Corpus data places it at rank #157 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for caso, with forms such as "acso", "casso", and "ccaso". 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, "co", "cat", "ceo", 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 caso, spelled C-A-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cada una de varias instancias consideradas como pertenecientes a un mismo tipo de situaciones o cosas (como los casos de una enfermedad, etc.).
- 2Evento o asunto llevado ante la consideración de la justicia o investigado por los organismos competentes.
- 3Suceso expuesto por su notoriedad en la prensa o mediante rumores.
- 4Propiedad gramatical presente en algunos idiomas, que indica mediante modificaciones del pronombre, el sustantivo o el adjetivo el papel sintáctico que estos cumplen en una frase determinada.
- 5Cada una de las funciones denotadas por los casos₄ de la flexión.
- 6Narración tradicional de una circunstancia o tipo de situación que se relata o cita como ejemplo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acso,casso,ccaso,csao
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for caso
Misspelling Variants of "caso"
Frequency rank: #157 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: