cabeza

\ka.be.sa\

/\ka.be.sa\/ noun

The verdict

“cabeza” is uncommon French (frequency #81,847 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#81,847
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tête.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cabeza · cabeza · French

cabeza · rank #81,847 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #81,847
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH cacatoès

Nearest frequency peer: cacatoès (+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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « cabeza »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cabeza » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for cabeza
PropertyValue
Headwordcabeza
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.be.sa\
Letters6
Frequency rank#81,847
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « cabeza » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).cabezatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « cacatoès » (#81,848), « bétonner » (#81,845), « cafetières » (#81,849). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cabeza » est au #81,847. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

cabeza is uncommon French at frequency #81,847 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.be.sa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tête.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for cabeza in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cabeza, spelled C-A-B-E-Z-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tête.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how cabeza appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Esprit mafia dans la cabeza.
  2. Nan mais j’hallucine, on n'est pas tout seul dans ma cabeza.

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cabeza"?
"cabeza" is spelled C-A-B-E-Z-A. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.be.sa\.
What does "cabeza" mean?
As a noun, "cabeza" means: Tête.
How do you pronounce "cabeza"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cabeza" is \ka.be.sa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cabeza" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cabeza", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list