cavado
[kaˈβ̞að̞o]
The verdict
“cavado” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #57,605 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,605
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participio de cavar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cavado · cavado · Spanish
cavado · rank #57,605 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,605
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cavan
Nearest frequency peer: cavan (+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 “cavado”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- cascabeles
cascabeles
42,400 corpus weight
- castigaron
castigaron
42,399 corpus weight
- cavado
cavado
42,396 corpus weight
- cavan
cavan
42,395 corpus weight
- Cayena
Cayena
42,394 corpus weight
- cebras
cebras
42,393 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cavado” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cavado |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kaˈβ̞að̞o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,605 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cavado” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cavado is uncommon Spanish at frequency #57,605 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [kaˈβ̞að̞o]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participio de cavar.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cavado, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 cavado, spelled C-A-V-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1Participio de cavar.
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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