causan

/[ˈkawsãn]/ verb

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,924

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

causan is aSpanishverb. It means: Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de causar. Pronounced [ˈkawsãn]. It ranks #8,924 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with cuán and cause.

Key facts for causan
PropertyValue
Headwordcausan
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ˈkawsãn]
Letters6
Frequency rank#8,924
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for causan is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkawsãn]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,924 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de causar.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for causan, with forms such as "casuan", "cauasn", and "causann". 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, "cuán", "cause", "curan", 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 causan, spelled C-A-U-S-A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de causar.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: casuan,cauasn,causann,causna,caussan,ccausan,cuasan

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for causan

Misspelling Variants of "causan"

casuan6cauasn6causann7causna6caussan7ccausan7cuasan6
Misspelling Variants of "causan"

Frequency rank: #8,924 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "causan"?
"causan" is spelled C-A-U-S-A-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈkawsãn].
What does "causan" mean?
As a verb, "causan" means: Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de causar.
What words are commonly confused with "causan"?
"causan" is commonly confused with "cuán", "cause", "curan". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "causan"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "causan" is [ˈkawsãn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "causan" come from?
"causan" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Spanish words

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.