cayado
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#78,021
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
cayado is aSpanishnoun. It means: Bastón tosco, corvo por la parte por donde se agarra, usado particularmente por los pastores. Pronounced [kaˈʝað̞o].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cayado |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈʝað̞o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #78,021 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cayado is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈʝað̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #78,021 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for cayado in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is cayado, spelled C-A-Y-A-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bastón tosco, corvo por la parte por donde se agarra, usado particularmente por los pastores.
- 2Bastón usado por algunos religiosos, particularmente obispos como símbolo de su posición.
Frequency rank: #78,021 in Spanish
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