cavo
Spanish, noun
cavo is spelled C-A-V-O (4 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Spanish, the 81,768th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cavo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “burrow, den” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of cavar. With an accent, cavó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of cavar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Cueva en la que viven algunos animales como el conejo y el hurón”.
What does cavo mean in English?
adjective
- 1
concave
noun
- 1
masculineburrow, den
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of cavar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of cavar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Cueva en la que viven algunos animales como el conejo y el hurón.
adjective: 1. Curvado hacia dentro como el interior de una esfera o una taza.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cavo
- cava feminine
- cavos masculine plural
- cavas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is cavo in Spanish?
cavo appears about once in every 5 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).