cenotes
[seˈnot̪es]
The verdict
“cenotes” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #65,951 among 77,812 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,951
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 77,812
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Forma del plural de cenote.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cenotes · cenotes · Spanish
cenotes · rank #65,951 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,951
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 77,812
- PHOTO-FINISH cenote
Nearest frequency peer: cenote (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “cenotes”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- caucásicos
caucásicos
34,052 corpus weight
- cenote
cenote
34,051 corpus weight
- cenotes
cenotes
34,050 corpus weight
- censuren
censuren
34,049 corpus weight
- centraban
centraban
34,048 corpus weight
- centésima
centésima
34,047 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “cenotes” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cenotes |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [seˈnot̪es] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,951 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cenotes” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cenotes is uncommon Spanish at frequency #65,951 among 77,812 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [seˈnot̪es]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forma del plural de cenote.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cenotes, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is cenotes, spelled C-E-N-O-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de cenote.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.