caución
[kawˈsjõn]
The verdict
“caución” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #54,737 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,737
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante anticuada de cautela.
Corpus desk
Index ES-caucion · caución · Spanish
caución · rank #54,737 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,737
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH catholic
Nearest frequency peer: catholic (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “caución”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- carretes
carretes
45,268 corpus weight
- cartográfica
cartográfica
45,267 corpus weight
- catapulta
catapulta
45,266 corpus weight
- catholic
catholic
45,265 corpus weight
- caución
caución
45,264 corpus weight
- census
census
45,261 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “caución” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caución |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kawˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,737 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “caución” en español
Rare enough to double-check
caución is uncommon Spanish at frequency #54,737 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kawˈsjõn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for caución, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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. The correct Spanish form is caución, spelled C-A-U-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Variante anticuada de cautela.
- 2Seguridad que da una persona a otra de que cumplirá lo pactado, prometido o mandado; garantía de cumplimiento de una obligación presente o eventual.
This word in other languages
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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