cetáceo
[seˈt̪aseo]
The verdict
“cetáceo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #88,632 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,632
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mamíferos placentarios que viven exclusivamente en ambiente acuático, no necesitando de tierra firme para parir.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cetaceo · cetáceo · Spanish
cetáceo · rank #88,632 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,632
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cerrarían
Nearest frequency peer: cerrarían (-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 “cetáceo”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- canelón
canelón
11,377 corpus weight
- capot
capot
11,376 corpus weight
- cenador
cenador
11,371 corpus weight
- cerrarían
cerrarían
11,370 corpus weight
- cetáceo
cetáceo
11,369 corpus weight
- chamanismo
chamanismo
11,368 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cetáceo” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cetáceo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [seˈt̪aseo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,632 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cetáceo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cetáceo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #88,632 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [seˈt̪aseo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mamíferos placentarios que viven exclusivamente en ambiente acuático, no necesitando de tierra firme para parir.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cetáceo in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is cetáceo, spelled C-E-T-Á-C-E-O.
Definition
- 1Mamíferos placentarios que viven exclusivamente en ambiente acuático, no necesitando de tierra firme para parir.
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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