cavan
[ˈkaβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“cavan” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #57,606 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,606
- 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 cavar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cavan · cavan · Spanish
cavan · rank #57,606 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,606
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cavado
Nearest frequency peer: cavado (-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 “cavan”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- 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
- Ceferino
Ceferino
42,392 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cavan” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cavan |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈkaβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,606 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cavan” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cavan is uncommon Spanish at frequency #57,606 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈkaβ̞ãn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de cavar.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cavan, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is cavan, spelled C-A-V-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo 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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