cavar
[kaˈβ̞aɾ]
The verdict
“cavar” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #28,673. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,673
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Retirar la tierra para hacer un hoyo o una excavación.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cavar · cavar · Spanish
cavar · rank #28,673 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,673
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH castidad
Nearest frequency peer: castidad (-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 “cavar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- carnero
carnero
71,331 corpus weight
- carrete
carrete
71,330 corpus weight
- castidad
castidad
71,329 corpus weight
- cavar
cavar
71,328 corpus weight
- celebren
celebren
71,327 corpus weight
- centinela
centinela
71,326 corpus weight
What this shows “cavar” 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 | cavar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kaˈβ̞aɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #28,673 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “cavar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around cavar (IPA [kaˈβ̞aɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #28,673 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for cavar, with forms such as "acvar", "caavr", and "cavarr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "caza", "cave", "Cova", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 cavar, spelled C-A-V-A-R.
Definition
- 1Retirar la tierra para hacer un hoyo o una excavación.
- 2Remover la tierra.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acvar
- caavr
- cavarr
- cavvar
- ccavar
- cvaar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cavar - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).