calar
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#44,601
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
calar is aSpanishverb. It means: Penetrar un líquido en un cuerpo permeable. Pronounced [kaˈlaɾ]. Often confused with car and casa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kaˈlaɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #44,601 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for calar is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈlaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #44,601 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for calar, with forms such as "aclar", "caalr", and "calarr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "car", "casa", "cara", 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 calar, spelled C-A-L-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Penetrar un líquido en un cuerpo permeable.
- 2Atravesar un instrumento otro cuerpo de una parte a otra.
- 3Agujerear tela, papel, metal, otra materia, de forma que resulte un dibujo parecido al de encaje.
- 4Examinar con atención.
- 5Comprender el motivo, razón o secreto de una cosa.
- 6Dicho de la gorra o el sombrero, ponérselos, haciéndolos entrar mucho en la cabeza.
- 7Hablando de las picas y otras armas, inclinarlas hacia delante en disposición de herir.
- 8Conocer las cualidades e intenciones de las personas.
- 9Recortar calados con la sierra en la madera.
- 10Vaciar calados en piedras.
- 11Hacer sumergir a un buque o cualquier otro objeto en el agua, como las redes, aparejos de pesca, etc.
- 12Arriar o bajar cualquier cosa que corre por un agujero, ya se halle éste en el cuerpo u objeto que se cala, ya en aquel por donde corre, como calar vergas, el timón, etc.
- 13Preparar el arma (como la pica o el fusil con bayoneta) para el choque cuerpo a cuerpo con el enemigo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aclar,caalr,calarr,ccalar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for calar
Misspelling Variants of "calar"
Frequency rank: #44,601 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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