cal
[ˈkal]
The verdict
“cal” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,675) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,675
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Óxido de calcio; sustancia blanca, ligera, cáustica y alcalina, que en estado natural se halla siempre combinada con alguna otra.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cal · cal · Spanish
cal · rank #7,675 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,675
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH caga
Nearest frequency peer: caga (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “cal”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- bono
bono
92,329 corpus weight
- brecha
brecha
92,328 corpus weight
- caga
caga
92,327 corpus weight
- cal
cal
92,326 corpus weight
- celda
celda
92,325 corpus weight
- cemento
cemento
92,324 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “cal” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkal] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,675 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Dónde se sitúa “cal” en la frecuencia del español
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cal is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CC", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈkal]. Frequency #7,675 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Óxido de calcio; sustancia blanca, ligera, cáustica y alcalina, que en estado natural se halla siempre combinada con alguna otra.".
cal has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "CC", "CD", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is cal, spelled C-A-L.
Definition
- 1Óxido de calcio; sustancia blanca, ligera, cáustica y alcalina, que en estado natural se halla siempre combinada con alguna otra.
This word in other languages
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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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.