calamina
[kalaˈmina]
The verdict
“calamina” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Carbonato de cinc anhidro, pétreo, blanco o amarillento, a veces teñido por el hierro de amarillo pardo o de rojo, y que es la mena generalmente empleada para extraer el cinc.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calamina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kalaˈmina] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “calamina” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
calamina is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [kalaˈmina]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for calamina, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 calamina, spelled C-A-L-A-M-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1Carbonato de cinc anhidro, pétreo, blanco o amarillento, a veces teñido por el hierro de amarillo pardo o de rojo, y que es la mena generalmente empleada para extraer el cinc.
- 2Cinc fundido.
- 3Aleación de cinc con plomo y estaño.
- 4Material de construcción, compuesto por una mezcla de cemento con asbesto, empleado principalmente en forma de planchas onduladas para cubrir el techo.
- 5Plancha ondulada hecha con calamina₄.
Synonyms
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.
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Using “calamina”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-L-A-M-I-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kalaˈmina] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.