Cavia
[ˈkaβ̞ja]
The verdict
“Cavia” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #83,723 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,723
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apellido.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cavia · Cavia · Spanish
Cavia · rank #83,723 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,723
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH catadura
Nearest frequency peer: catadura (-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 “Cavia”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- carcoma
carcoma
16,285 corpus weight
- careo
careo
16,284 corpus weight
- Casanueva
Casanueva
16,281 corpus weight
- catadura
catadura
16,279 corpus weight
- Cavia
Cavia
16,278 corpus weight
- charcutería
charcutería
16,271 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “Cavia” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cavia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈkaβ̞ja] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “Cavia” en español
Rare enough to double-check
Cavia is uncommon Spanish at frequency #83,723 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈkaβ̞ja]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Apellido.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Cavia, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 Cavia, spelled C-A-V-I-A.
Definition
- 1Apellido.
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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