socavón
[sokaˈβ̞õn]
The verdict
“socavón” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #59,634 among 4,169 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,634
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cueva artificial o galería excavada horizontalmente en el monte.
Corpus desk
Index ES-socavon · socavón · Spanish
socavón · rank #59,634 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,634
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sobrevivirán
Nearest frequency peer: sobrevivirán (-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 “socavón”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- simétricos
simétricos
40,371 corpus weight
- sinergias
sinergias
40,370 corpus weight
- sobrevivirán
sobrevivirán
40,368 corpus weight
- socavón
socavón
40,367 corpus weight
- soldier
soldier
40,365 corpus weight
- solidarizar…
solidarizarse
40,364 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “socavón” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | socavón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [sokaˈβ̞õn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,634 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “socavón” en español
Rare enough to double-check
socavón is uncommon Spanish at frequency #59,634 among 4,169 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [sokaˈβ̞õn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for socavón in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 socavón, spelled S-O-C-A-V-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Cueva artificial o galería excavada horizontalmente en el monte.
- 2Zona en que el suelo se ha hundido a causa de haber quedado en falso.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how socavón appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Un minero encontró trágica muerte tras un derrumbe al interior del socavón de una mina subterránea".
"Una máquina de limpieza quedó atrapada en un socavón provocado por el hundimiento del subsuelo".
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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