animálculo

[aniˈmalkulo]

/[aniˈmalkulo]/ noun

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The verdict

“animálculo” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency Spanish
10
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Animal perceptible solamente con el auxilio del microscopio.

Corpus desk

Index ES-animalculo · animálculo · Spanish

animálculo · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "A" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for animálculo
PropertyValue
Headwordanimálculo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[aniˈmalkulo]
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “animálculo” sits in Spanish frequency

animálculo falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Spanish words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

animálculo is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [aniˈmalkulo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Animal perceptible solamente con el auxilio del microscopio.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for animálculo, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 animálculo, spelled A-N-I-M-Á-L-C-U-L-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Animal perceptible solamente con el auxilio del microscopio.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "animálculo"?
"animálculo" is spelled A-N-I-M-Á-L-C-U-L-O. The IPA pronunciation is [aniˈmalkulo].
What does "animálculo" mean?
As a noun, "animálculo" means: Animal perceptible solamente con el auxilio del microscopio.
How do you pronounce "animálculo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "animálculo" is [aniˈmalkulo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "animálculo" come from?
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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.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list