cave
[ˈkaβ̞e]
The verdict
“cave” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #34,485. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,485
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de subjuntivo de cavar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cave · cave · Spanish
cave · rank #34,485 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,485
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH castración
Nearest frequency peer: castración (-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 “cave”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- caribeños
caribeños
65,520 corpus weight
- castración
castración
65,517 corpus weight
- cave
cave
65,516 corpus weight
- centraron
centraron
65,515 corpus weight
- cher
cher
65,514 corpus weight
- chill
chill
65,513 corpus weight
What this shows “cave” 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 | cave |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈkaβ̞e] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #34,485 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “cave”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around cave (IPA [ˈkaβ̞e]), averb. Corpus frequency is #34,485 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for cave, with forms such as "acve", "caev", and "cavve". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CV", "ce", "che", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is cave, spelled C-A-V-E.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de subjuntivo de cavar.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de cavar.
- 3Segunda persona del singular (usted) del imperativo de cavar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acve
- caev
- cavve
- ccave
- cvae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cave - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "cave", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).