Cayena
[kaˈʝena]
The verdict
“Cayena” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #57,607 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,607
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capital de la Guayana Francesa.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cayena · Cayena · Spanish
Cayena · rank #57,607 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,607
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cavan
Nearest frequency peer: cavan (-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 “Cayena”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- cavado
cavado
42,396 corpus weight
- cavan
cavan
42,395 corpus weight
- Cayena
Cayena
42,394 corpus weight
- cebras
cebras
42,393 corpus weight
- Ceferino
Ceferino
42,392 corpus weight
- ceibal
ceibal
42,391 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “Cayena” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cayena |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [kaˈʝena] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,607 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “Cayena” en español
Rare enough to double-check
Cayena is uncommon Spanish at frequency #57,607 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [kaˈʝena]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Capital de la Guayana Francesa.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Cayena in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 Cayena, spelled C-A-Y-E-N-A.
Definition
- 1Capital de la Guayana Francesa.
This word in other languages
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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