cáustica
[ˈkawst̪ika]
The verdict
“cáustica” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #66,036 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,036
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Envolvente de los rayos de luz reflejados o refractados por una superficie curva u objeto.
Corpus desk
Index ES-caustica · cáustica · Spanish
cáustica · rank #66,036 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,036
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH curvado
Nearest frequency peer: curvado (-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 “cáustica”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- curaba
curaba
33,967 corpus weight
- curvado
curvado
33,966 corpus weight
- cáustica
cáustica
33,965 corpus weight
- dancer
dancer
33,964 corpus weight
- decepciono
decepciono
33,962 corpus weight
- decretaron
decretaron
33,961 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cáustica” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cáustica |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkawst̪ika] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,036 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cáustica” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cáustica is uncommon Spanish at frequency #66,036 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkawst̪ika]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
cáustica has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is cáustica, spelled C-Á-U-S-T-I-C-A.
Definition
- 1Envolvente de los rayos de luz reflejados o refractados por una superficie curva u objeto.
- 2Proyección de esa envolvente de rayos₄ en otra superficie.
- 3La curva en la cual los rayos de luz son tangentes, determinando una frontera de la envolvente de rayos₄ como una curva de luz concentrada.
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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