cayo
[ˈkaʝo]
The verdict
“cayo” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #8,772. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,772
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tipo de isla pequeña que se encuentra en el Golfo de México y mar de las Antillas, con suelo arenoso, de muy poca elevación sobre el nivel del mar, por lo que suele inundarse con las mareas altas y...
Corpus desk
Index ES-cayo · cayo · Spanish
cayo · rank #8,772 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,772
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH casar
Nearest frequency peer: casar (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “cayo”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- cansancio
cansancio
91,232 corpus weight
- captar
captar
91,231 corpus weight
- casar
casar
91,230 corpus weight
- cayo
cayo
91,229 corpus weight
- chef
chef
91,228 corpus weight
- cierran
cierran
91,227 corpus weight
What this shows “cayo” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cayo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkaʝo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #8,772 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “cayo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around cayo (IPA [ˈkaʝo]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,772 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tipo de isla pequeña que se encuentra en el Golfo de México y mar de las Antillas, con suelo arenoso, de muy poca elevación sobre el nivel del mar, por lo que suele inundarse con las mareas altas y...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for cayo, with forms such as "acyo", "caoy", and "cayyo". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "ceo", "cho", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is cayo, spelled C-A-Y-O.
Definition
- 1Tipo de isla pequeña que se encuentra en el Golfo de México y mar de las Antillas, con suelo arenoso, de muy poca elevación sobre el nivel del mar, por lo que suele inundarse con las mareas altas y tormentas; a menudo tiene manglares.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acyo
- caoy
- cayyo
- ccayo
- cyao
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cayo - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).