calandria
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#82,695
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
calandria is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Melanocorypha spp.) Cualquiera de seis especies de aves paseriformes de la familia de los aláudidos, nativas de las regiones templadas de Eurasia, de hasta 20 cm de largo, con plumaje pardo a gris... Pronounced [kaˈlãn̪d̪ɾja].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calandria |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈlãn̪d̪ɾja] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #82,695 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for calandria is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈlãn̪d̪ɾja]. Corpus data places it at rank #82,695 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for calandria in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 calandria, spelled C-A-L-A-N-D-R-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Melanocorypha spp.) Cualquiera de seis especies de aves paseriformes de la familia de los aláudidos, nativas de las regiones templadas de Eurasia, de hasta 20 cm de largo, con plumaje pardo a grisáceo, cuello robusto, alas anchas y cola corta. Migran en la estación fría.
- 2(Mimus saturninus) Ave paseriforme de la familia de los mímidos, nativa de las regiones templadas a tropicales de Sudamérica, de aspecto que recuerda vagamente al de la calandria₁. Alcanza los 30 cm de largo, con plumaje pardo a gris, blanco en el pecho y cuello, con largas patas adaptadas a pasar mucho tiempo en tierra. Es un excelente imitador del canto de otras aves.
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Frequency rank: #82,695 in Spanish
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