cayado
[kaˈʝað̞o]
The verdict
“cayado” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #78,021 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,021
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bastón tosco, corvo por la parte por donde se agarra, usado particularmente por los pastores.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cayado · cayado · Spanish
cayado · rank #78,021 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,021
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH censure
Nearest frequency peer: censure (+2 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 “cayado”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- carnívora
carnívora
21,985 corpus weight
- carrascosa
carrascosa
21,984 corpus weight
- catedralicio
catedralicio
21,983 corpus weight
- cayado
cayado
21,980 corpus weight
- censure
censure
21,978 corpus weight
- chatos
chatos
21,975 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cayado” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cola larga: rango de “cayado” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cayado is uncommon Spanish at frequency #78,021 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kaˈʝað̞o]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
cayado doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is cayado, spelled C-A-Y-A-D-O.
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.
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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