vena cava
The verdict
“vena cava” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Cada una de las dos venas mayores del cuerpo, una superior o descendente, que recibe la sangre de la mitad superior del cuerpo, y otra inferior o ascendente, que recoge la sangre de los órganos sit...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vena cava |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈbena ˈkaβ̞a] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “vena cava” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for vena cava is 9 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbena ˈkaβ̞a]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Cada una de las dos venas mayores del cuerpo, una superior o descendente, que recibe la sangre de la mitad superior del cuerpo, y otra inferior o ascendente, que recoge la sangre de los órganos sit...".
No misspelling variants are generated for vena cava in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is vena cava, spelled V-E-N-A- -C-A-V-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cada una de las dos venas mayores del cuerpo, una superior o descendente, que recibe la sangre de la mitad superior del cuerpo, y otra inferior o ascendente, que recoge la sangre de los órganos situados debajo del diafragma: ambas desembocan en la aurícula derecha del corazón.
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Using “vena cava”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is V-E-N-A- -C-A-V-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈbena ˈkaβ̞a] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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