cautivan
[kawˈt̪iβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“cautivan” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #99,325 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,325
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de cautivar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cautivan · cautivan · Spanish
cautivan · rank #99,325 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,325
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cañadón
Nearest frequency peer: cañadón (+3 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 “cautivan”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- carbonatada
carbonatada
685 corpus weight
- catena
catena
680 corpus weight
- cautivan
cautivan
676 corpus weight
- cañadón
cañadón
673 corpus weight
- Cejudo
Cejudo
672 corpus weight
- censuraba
censuraba
671 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cautivan” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cautivan |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kawˈt̪iβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,325 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cautivan” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cautivan is uncommon Spanish at frequency #99,325 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [kawˈt̪iβ̞ãn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de cautivar.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cautivan in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 cautivan, spelled C-A-U-T-I-V-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de cautivar.
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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