bacal
[baˈkal]
The verdict
“bacal” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parte central (raquis) de la mazorca del maíz, en donde se implantan los granos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-bacal · bacal · Spanish
bacal · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bacal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [baˈkal] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “bacal” en español
Rare enough to double-check
bacal is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [baˈkal]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Parte central (raquis) de la mazorca del maíz, en donde se implantan los granos.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bacal, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is bacal, spelled B-A-C-A-L.
Definition
- 1Parte central (raquis) de la mazorca del maíz, en donde se implantan los granos.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.