cal

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for cal is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkal]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,675 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Óxido de calcio; sustancia blanca, ligera, cáustica y alcalina, que en estado natural se halla siempre combinada con alguna otra.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cal in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 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 cal, spelled C-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.