causa

/[ˈkawsa]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#653

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

causa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Origen de un evento o acción Pronounced [ˈkawsa]. It ranks #653 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with cua and cosa.

Key facts for causa
PropertyValue
Headwordcausa
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈkawsa]
Letters5
Frequency rank#653
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of causa in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for causa is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkawsa]. Corpus data places it at rank #653 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 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 causa, with forms such as "casua", "cauas", and "caussa". 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, "cua", "cosa", "Cuba", 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 causa, spelled C-A-U-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Origen de un evento o acción
  2. 2
    Motivo o razón para actuar.
  3. 3
    En un contrato, contraprestación que objetiva y legalmente pueda juzgarse signifcativa y ecuánime para cada una de las partes que celebre un contrato.
  4. 4
    Litigio.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: casua,cauas,caussa,ccausa,cuasa

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for causa

Misspelling Variants of "causa"

casua5cauas5caussa6ccausa6cuasa5
Misspelling Variants of "causa"

Frequency rank: #653 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "causa"?
"causa" is spelled C-A-U-S-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈkawsa].
What does "causa" mean?
As a noun, "causa" means: Origen de un evento o acción
What words are commonly confused with "causa"?
"causa" is commonly confused with "cua", "cosa", "Cuba". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "causa"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "causa" is [ˈkawsa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "causa" come from?
"causa" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.