cautelar
[kawt̪eˈlaɾ]
The verdict
“cautelar” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #28,275. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,275
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prevenir, precaver.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cautelar · cautelar · Spanish
cautelar · rank #28,275 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,275
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH causará
Nearest frequency peer: causará (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “cautelar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- caminé
caminé
71,730 corpus weight
- cascabel
cascabel
71,729 corpus weight
- Cases
Cases
71,728 corpus weight
- causará
causará
71,727 corpus weight
- cautelar
cautelar
71,726 corpus weight
- cela
cela
71,723 corpus weight
What this shows “cautelar” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cautelar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kawt̪eˈlaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #28,275 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “cautelar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around cautelar (IPA [kawt̪eˈlaɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #28,275 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prevenir, precaver.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for cautelar, with forms such as "acutelar", "catuelar", and "cauetlar". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "cautelares", "cautela", "cancelar", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is cautelar, spelled C-A-U-T-E-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1Prevenir, precaver.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acutelar
- catuelar
- cauetlar
- cautealr
- cautelarr
- cautellar
- cautelra
- cautlear
- cauttelar
- ccautelar
- cuatelar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cautelar - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cautelar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).